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in Zion’s Advocate vol.19 no.5 (1879)
THE MEMORABLE WORDS of our adorable Redeemer, “It is
finished,” which He uttered with his dying breath upon the crest
of calvary, was the closing act of the solemn tragedy of his crucifixion,
and the great work of the atonement for his people. By
this the first gospel promise was verified, “the seed of the woman
shall bruise the serpent’s head,” as it is written: “When they had
fulfilled all that was written of him they took him down from
the tree.” They fulfilled the scriptures and knew not what they
did. How wonderful in working is God, and how deeply mysterious
is his work in employing wicked men in the crucifixion of
him who was the Lord of glory, and yet to have no fellowship
with the workers of iniquity, and to hold the actors responsible
to him in his law and justice for their wickedness. It was the
greatest wickedness that was ever committed on earth, and the
greatest good resulted to mankind from it.
The hidden wisdom of God in this glorious mystery is stated
by Peter in his sermon at the Pentecostal feast, in which is exhibited
the absolute sovereignty of God, and the accountability of men
for their acts. “Him being delivered by the determinate counsel
and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands
have crucified and slain. Whom God raised up, having loosed the
pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden
of it.” Acts 2:23, 24.
Jesus died. The soldiers did not break his legs, as they said he
was dead already. But God had said a bone of him shall not be
broken. If the powers of darkness were capable of joyful sensations,
the shout of joy must have rang throughout their borders, that they
had at last succeeded in putting to death their great enemy, who
tormented them with his holy presence, and his divine and heavenly
doctrine, and with the great stone sealed, and their watch, a
military guard, to keep him under the power of death and the
grave, but what was this precaution when the angel came down
from heaven and rolled back the stone from the door of the sepulchre,
and sat upon it, when the keepers in great fear became as
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