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For in point of fact they insuited Him both when He was arrested and when He was bound, when He was judged, when He was mocked by the robe they put on Him and the homage they did on bended knee, when He was crowned with thorns and struck with a rod on the head, when He bore His cross, and when at last He hung upon the tree.And therefore we recognize more fully the Lord's passion when we do not confine ourselves to one interpretation, but combine both, and read both "insulted" and "pierced."When, therefore, we read in the prophetical books that God is to come to do judgment at the last, from the mere mention of the judgment, and although there is nothing else to determine the meaning, we must gather that Christ is meant; for though the Father will judge, He will judge by the coming of the Son.For He Himself, by His own manifested presence, "judges no man, but has committed all judgment to the Son;"(2) for as the Son was judged as a man, He shall also judge in human form.For it is none but He of whom God speaks by Isaiah under the name of Jacob and Israel, of whose seed Christ took a body, as it is written, "Jacob is my servant, I will uphold Him; Israel is mine elect, my Spirit has assumed Him: I have put my Spirit upon Him; He shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.He shall not cry, nor cease, neither shall His voice be heard without.Abruised reed shall He not break, and the smoking flax shall He not quench: but in truth shall He bring forth judgment.He shall shine and shall not be broken, until He sets judgment in the earth:

and the nations shall hope in His name."(3) The Hebrew has not "Jacob" and "Israel;" but the Septuagint translators, wishing to show the significance of the expression "my servant," and that it refers to the form of a servant in which the Most High humbled Himself, inserted the name of that man from whose stock He took the form of a servant.The Holy Spirit was given to Him, and was manifested, as the evangelist testifies, in the form of a dove.(4) He brought forth judgment to the Gentiles, because He predicted what was hidden from them.In His meekness He did not cry, nor did He cease to proclaim the truth.But His voice was not heard, nor is it heard, without, because He is not obeyed by those who are outside of His body.And the Jews themselves, who persecuted Him, He did not break, though as a bruised reed they had lost their integrity, and as smoking flax their light was quenched; for He spared them, having come to be judged and not yet to judge.He brought forth judgment in truth, declaring that they should be punished did they persist in their wickedness.His face shone on the Mount,(5) His fame in the world.

He is not broken nor over come, because neither in Himself nor in His Church has persecution prevailed to annihilate Him.

And therefore that has not, and shall not, be brought about which His enemies said or say, "When shall He die, and His name perish?"(1) "until He set judgment in the earth."Behold, the hidden thing which we were seeking is discovered.For this is the last judgment, which He will set in the earth when He comes from heaven.And it is in Him, too, we already see the concluding expression of the prophecy fulfilled: "In His name shall the nations hope." And by this fulfillment, which no one can deny, men are encouraged to believe in that which is most impudently denied.For who could have hoped for that which even those who do not yet believe in Christ now see fulfilled among us, and which is so undeniable that they can but gnash their teeth and pine away? Who, I say, could have hoped that the nations would hope in the name of Christ, when He was arrested, bound, scourged, mocked, crucified, when even the disciples themselves had lost the hope which they had begun to have in Him? The hope which was then entertained scarcely by the one thief on the cross, is now cherished by nations everywhere on the earth, who are marked with the sign of the cross on which He died that they may not die eternally.

That the last judgment, then, shall be administered by Jesus Christ in the manner predicted in the sacred writings is denied or doubted by no one, unless by those who, through some incredible animosity or blindness, decline to believe these writings, though already their truth is demonstrated to all the world.And at or in connection with that judgment the following events shall come to pass, as we have learned: Elias the Tishbite shall come; the Jews shall believe; Antichrist shall persecute; Christ shall judge; the dead shall rise; the good and the wicked shall be separated;the world shall be burned and renewed.All these things, we believe, shall come to pass; but how, or in what order, human understanding cannot perfectly teach us, but only the experience of the events themselves.My opinion, however, is, that they will happen in the order in which I have related them.

Two books yet remain to be written by me, in order to complete, by God's help, what I promised.One of these will explain the punishment of the wicked, the other the happiness of the righteous;and in them I shall be at special pains to refute, by God's grace, the arguments by which some unhappy creatures seem to themselves to undermine the divine promises and threatenings, and to ridicule as empty words statements which are the most salutary nutriment of faith.But they who are instructed in divine things hold the truth and omnipotence of God to be the strongest arguments in favor of those things which, however incredible they seem to men, are yet contained in the Scriptures, whose truth has already in many ways been proved; for they are sure that God can m no wise lie, and that He can do what is impossible to the unbelieving.

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