Yea, not only others that are better then you, but God and Christ is reproached: How is the 1name of God slighted? the basest wretch that will tremble before his Master, thinks himself good enough to blaspheme the name of God: How is the majesty, sovereignty, and authority of God contemned in the world? How are the dreadful threatenings of God, and the revelation of Gods wrath scorned in the world? When as we hear out of the word such dreadful manifestations of Gods wrath against sin, which calls for trembling hearts, yet how are they slighted in the world? thus God is reproached, and Christ: No man is able to bear so much ⟨p. 382⟩contempt as Christ bears daily, says Luther: Not to speak of the reproaches that Christ endures in his 2people, but the reproaches that he endured in his person, in his preaching; how was he contemned in Luke 16. 14. when he preached against covetousness, the Pharisees scorned at him; the word signifies, They blew their noses at him: you know how he was called a Devil, a Samaritan, a wine-bibber, a friend of publicans and sinners; What worse can be imagined then was cast upon Christ? they spit on his face, that 3blessed face of his, that the waves of the Sea were afraid of, and that the Sun withdrew its light from, as not being fit to behold it, and yet they put thorns upon his head, and bowed to him in reproach; yea, in his misery how was he reproached, when he was upon the Cross, they nodded their heads at him, and said, He that could save others, let him come down and save himself.
Yea, not onely others that are better then you, but God and Christ is reproached: How is the 1name of God slighted? the basest wretch that will tremble before his Master, thinks himself good enough to blaspheme the name of God: How is the majesty, soveraignty, and authority of God contemned in the world? How are the dreadful threatnings of God, and the revelation of Gods wrath scorned in the world? When as we hear out of the word such dreadful manifestations of Gods wrath against sin, which calls for trembling hearts, yet how are they slighted in the world? thus God is reproached, and Christ: No man is able to bear so much ⟨p. 382⟩contempt as Christ beares daily, says Luther: Not to speak of the reproaches that Christ endures in his 2people, but the reproaches that he endured in his person, in his preaching; how was he contemned in Luke 16. 14. when he preached against covetousness, the Pharisees scorned at him; the word signifies, They blew their noses at him: you know how he was called a Devil, a Samaritan, a wine-bibber, a friend of publicans and sinners; What worse can be imagined then was cast upon Christ? they spit on his face, that 3blessed face of his, that the waves of the Sea were afraid of, and that the Sun withdrew its light from, as not being fit to behold it, and yet they put thorns upon his head, and bowed to him in reproach; yea, in his misery how was he reproached, when he was upon the Cross, they nodded their heads at him, and said, He that could save others, let him come down and save himself.
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- 2Nullus homo potest ferre tantū contemptum sui, quantū Deus fert quotidite. Luth. in Ps. 122.Nullus homo potest ferre tantū contemptum sui, quantū Deus fert quotidite. Luth. in Ps. 122.
- 3In faciem illam quam fluctus maris reveriti sunt, quam sol in cruce vivendo radios occuluit. Chrysost. Hom. 86. ex cap. 26. in Mat.
