Skip to main content Accessibility help

We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.

Close cookie message
×
Hostname: page-component-77c89778f8-swr86 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-07-20T23:26:42.635Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

XI - JESUS THE TRUE IDEAL

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 August 2010

Henry Ward Beecher
Get access

Summary

“Wherefore, seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of faith; who, for the joy that was set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.”

—Heb. xii: 1–3.

Our Version and the Revised Version err, I think, in the rendering. In italics, in both instances, the word “our” is inserted:

“Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith.”

That “our” transfers the meaning to us; but it is not in the Greek, though it was supposed to be implied. It is a great deal better rendering to say that Christ was “the author and the finisher of faith;” for there passes in array that illustrious procession; and the one theme that runs through the whole grand symphony of so many performers was their faith. Then, says the apostle, let Jesus Christ stand in the place of all those; for he is the author and the finisher of faith.

Type
Chapter
Information
Evolution and Religion , pp. 328 - 338
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2009
First published in: 1885

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure coreplatform@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

Available formats
×