Lux Mundi: A Series of Studies in the Religion of the Incarnation, / 10th Edition, 1890

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[239] See e.g. Moule, Outlines of Christian Doctrine, p. 185.

[240] Cf. Aug. de Trin. i. 10: 'Tales nos amat Deus, quales futuri sumus, non quales sumus.'

[241] This is well stated by M^cLeod Campbell, l. c. p. 16.

[242] Cf. Athan. de Inc. passim, esp. chs. 20 and 42. Hooker, Eccles. Pol. V. li. 3, 'It seemeth a thing unconsonant that the world should honour any other as the Saviour but Him Whom it honoureth as the Creator of the world.'

[243] Cf. the true reading of S. Mark iii. 29, R.V.

[244] W. R. Greg.

[245] It should be noticed that the Greek Fathers and the English divines for the most part confine themselves to shewing this moral fitness and consonance with God's moral nature in the Atonement, and do not attempt to prove its absolute necessity. Cf. Athanasius, de Incarn. Verbi, ch. 6; Hooker, Eccles. Pol. V. li. 3; Butler, Analogy, pt. ii. c. 5.

[246] Cf. De Incarn. Verbi, chs. 27, 28, 29.

[247] Cf. Carlyle's apostrophe to Marie Antoinette on her way to the scaffold: 'Think of Him Whom thou worshippest, the Crucified,—Who also treading the winepress alone, fronted sorrow still deeper; and triumphed over it, and made it Holy, and built of it a "Sanctuary of Sorrow" for thee and all the wretched.' Miscellaneous Essays, vol. v. p. 165 (ed. 1872).