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Title: The history of Christianity: consisting of the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth; the adventures of Paul and the apostles; and the most interesting events in the progress of Christianity, from the earliest period to the present time
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot), 1805-1877
Subjects: Jesus Christ Paul, the Apostle, Saint Church history
Publisher: Boston, B.B. Russel Philadelphia, Quaker-city publishing-house (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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e has overcome, would persuade us toaccompany him. Instead of inclining us the more to enter,the very number and force of these conflicting invitations serverather to repel. ^ At the conclusion of these announcements respecting thefuture, Jesus gives a very sublime description of the day offinal judgment, in which he represents himself as seated uponthe throne to pronounce the irreversible verdicts. When the Son of man, he said, ^^ shall come in his glory,and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon thethrone of his glory: and before him shall be gathered allnations; and he shall separate them one from another as ashepherd divideth his sheep from the goats; and he shall setthe sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. Thenshall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, yeblessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for yojifrom the foundation of the world. Then shall he say also unto 1 The Life of Christ, by Rev. William B. Hanna, D.D., LL.D., p. 567.
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LAST LABORS, AND FAREWELL. 113 them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, tnto ever-lasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels. And theseshall go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteousinto life eternal/^ ^ Having thus described himself as seated upon the throne offinal judgment, he added the declaration so bewildering to hisdisciples, ^ Ye know that after two days is the feast of thepassover, and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified.^ The chief priests and the scribes held a council in the pal-ace of Caiaphas, the high priest, to devise some means by whichthey might put Jesus to death. It was not easy to rouse themob against him; for he was popular with the people. JudasIscariot, probably hearing of this council, went to the chiefpriest^, and agreed to betray Jesus to them by night forthirty pieces of silver, — about fifteen dollars. They fearedthe people ; and it was consequently necessary that he shouldbetray him unto them in the absence of the mu

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