Footnote 36: See Hastings' _Dictionary of the Bible_, Art. "Sin," vol.
iii. p. 533.
Footnote 37: This is the R.V. marginal rendering of Gen. iv. 13.
Footnote 38: R.W. Dale, _Evangelical Revival and other Sermons_, p. 66
ff.
Footnote 39: _The Kingdom of God_, p. 203.
Footnote 40: In his famous sermon on the Pharisees, _University
Sermons_, p. 32.
Footnote 41: R.W. Church, _Gifts of Civilisation_, p. 71.
Footnote 42: Prov. iv. 7: "Get wisdom; and with all thy getting get
understanding," which does not mean simply, "Whatever else you get, be
sure to get understanding." The marginal reference is to Matt. xiii. 44:
wisdom, like the pearl of great price, is to be secured with, _i.e._ at
the cost and sacrifice of, everything else that can be gotten. (See J.R.
Lumby on "Shortcomings of Translation," _Expositor_, second series, VOL.
iii. p. 203.)
Footnote 43: 2 Cor. v. 9 R.V. margin.
Footnote 44: _Laws of Christ for Common Life_, p. 59.
Footnote 45: _Bible Characters: Stephen to Timothy_, p. 95.
Footnote 46: _On the Authorized Version of the New Testament_, p. 14.
Footnote 47: I am indebted for these two quotations to Bishop Paget's
_Spirit of Discipline_, p. 66.
Footnote 48: P. Carnegie Simpson, _The Fact of Christ_, pp. 116, 117.
Footnote 49: _Time and Tide_, p. 224.
Footnote 50: F.G. Peabody, _Jesus Christ and the Social Problem_, p.
219.
Footnote 51: Emerson had surely overlooked this nobler meaning of the
word when he wrote, "They [the English] put up no Socratic prayer, much
less any saintly prayer, for the queen's mind; ask neither for light nor
right, but say bluntly, 'grant her in health and wealth long to live'"
(_English Traits_).
Footnote 52: To those who are interested in the subject of this chapter
Prof. Peabody's book already referred to, and an article entitled "The
Teaching of Christ concerning the Use of Money" _(Expositor,_ third
series, vol. viii. p. 100 ff.) may be recommended.
Footnote 53: _Studies in Theology_, p. 239.
Footnote 54: "There is no subject on which it is more difficult to
ascertain the teaching of Christ than that which relates to the future
of the kingdom."--A.B. Bruce, _The Kingdom of God_, p. 273.
Footnote 55: J. Agar Beet, _The Last Things_, p. 46.
Footnote 56: Marcus Dods, _The Parables of our Lord_ (first series), p.
238.
Footnote 57: _Cathedral and University Sermons_, p. 10.
Footnote 58: John Watson, _The Mind of the Master_, pp. 203, 2
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