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The Logos in John’s Prologue John’s use of logos drew on a wide-range of Jewish and Greek concepts, evoking associations with the OT , Hellenistic Jewish literature, and Greek philosophy. Using the title “the Word” for Jesus simultaneously invoked and subverted the assumptions of his Jewish and Greek audiences. His use of the term was a deliberate attempt to persuade them of the divinity of Jesus using categories of thought they would have been familiar with. For Jews, John’s use of logos would have evoked the phrase, the “word of Yahweh.” This title was an important part of biblical traditions about Yahweh and His effective power over the universe. The phrase was regularly used to refer to Scripture as divine law ( Isa 2:3 ), written instruction ( Psa 119:11 ), and prophetic revelation ( Hos 4:1 ; Ezek 6:1 ). More important, the “word of Yahweh” was depicted as an active force at work in the world to accomplish Yahweh’s will ( Isa 55:11 ; Jer 23:29 ). This force was the agent th...

Bethany ‎ On the eastern side of the Mount of Olives, and but a half an hour’s walk from Jerusalem, is the town of Bethany—the house of dates—so called because of the tall date palm trees which once grew among the little white dwellings. The Arabic name is El-Azariyeh—the place of Lazarus. The palms are all gone now. It is now and always has been a poor, small mountain hamlet with nothing to charm except its seclusion and nothing to interest the Christian world save its associations. It is made sacred as the place where our Redeemer rested and prayed, and where no noisy crowd broke in upon His meditations. Lazarus, probably a rich man, lived there with his two sisters, Mary and Martha. Jesus was invited to abide with them on one occasion, and always afterwards on his visits to Jerusalem made a home at the vine-clad cottage of Lazarus. “There,” says Porter, “no sound of the busy world followed him in the quiet home of Martha, and in some lonely recess of Bethany’s secluded de...

Philadelphia ‎Philadelphia is a city of Asia Minor, about one hundred and eight miles from Smyrna, containing a population of about twelve thousand, two thousand of whom are Greeks and the rest Mohammedans. It is now called Allah Shehr, “the exalted city.” It was founded by Attalus Philadelphus, king of Pergamos, about 200 B. C. Its walls are still standing, inclosing several hills, upon the sides of which the town stood. They are built of unhewn stone, massed and cemented together with fragments of old buildings. Some immense remains of buildings, huge square stone pillars supporting brick arches, are also standing and are called the ruins of a Christian church. It was to the angel of the church of Philadelphia that Jesus said through John in the book of the Revelation 3:7–12 : “I know thy works:behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it:for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name. * * * Because thou hast kept...

September 15   The Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many         Matt. 20:28 We are so to surrender ourselves to Christ that this great purpose of His coming shall claim and possess the whole life. We are to live, like God, to bless others. This is His will, His purpose concerning us. This is what His power waits to do for us. And this too, is the claim of His great love upon us. Do not sigh a poor assent to the truth of it, and then pass by neglectfully on the other side. Do not think about it and pray about it without even a passing hope that the prayer will be answered. Do not gather yourself up in great resolutions to be good and useful. Kneel in sight of the Crucified. In the cross of Christ spell out His great purpose and yearning love to men. Let the heart feel all the might of the appeal that comes to us from those torn hands and feet and bleeding brow, from all the dreadful sha...

"Forsaken" ‎All things, as John tells us, were now accomplished; the Scriptures of old, the prophecies concerning Messiah , were all fulfilled. Only the consummation of the Great Sacrifice , the actual human death of the divine Son , remained to be completed. For more than three hours Jesus had hung upon His cross, from before noon till mid-afternoon; but the last of those hours was not such as the first. Gradually, imperceptibly perhaps, a darkness had closed round the earth. Was not the “light of the world” fading from it? Men who had mocked Him in the sunshine grew silent as this funereal blackness blotted out the day. ‎Every gasp of the sufferer must have been audible now in that strange hush. The tragedy was being mercifully hurried to an end. Some victims lived upon the cross for days; Jesus was dying in three hours. One awful cry of anguish was wrung from Him , “My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me?” A cry of human heartbreak; for was it not of heartb...