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human history." We are told in 1 Cor. xv. 20 (b.y), " Now hath 

 Christ been raised from t*he dead, the first fruits of those that are 

 asleep." 



What were the first fruits? They were early produce offered 

 to Jehovah on the morrow of the Sabbath after the Passover (Lev. 

 xxiii. 10-11). Now our Lord died at a feast of Passover. His 

 Resurrection synchronised with the date of the waving of the first 

 fruits, as both events took place on the morrow of the Sabbath after 

 the Passover. Can it therefore be admitted with Professor Lake 

 and Dr. Murray (see page 149) that no indication is given in 

 the Old Testament that the Resurrection took place on the third 

 day after the Crucifixion (see also Jonah i. 17 and Matt. xii. 40) ? 



Space prevents allusion to more than a very little of the evidences 

 of the R-esurrection in the Gospels, but we may notice very briefly 

 the emphatic testimony of St. Luke, given (according to his custom) 

 by three-fold repetition of miracles of raising from the dead by our 

 Lord. 



1. The only son of the widow of Nain. 



2. The only daughter of Jairus. 



3. The raising up from a living death of the demoniac, just 



after the Transfiguration, who was an only child. 



We are surely very pointedly reminded of the loved only Son of 

 the Father raised up from the dead by the power of God. There 

 are many incidental touches which confirm us in this conclusion. 

 We have only room for the following: — 



The word monogenes, translated in each case only (born), is not 

 employed again by St. Luke ; but in other parts of the New Testa- 

 ment it always indicates the Lord Jesus Christ, except in Heb. xi. 17. 

 wher.e it refers to Isaac, alluded to as a type of Christ. Monogenes 

 is used in the Septuagint as the equivalent of the Hebrew word 

 yarhid in Ps. xxii. 20, " Deliver . . . My Darling from the 

 power of the dog." a word undoubtedly referring to our Lord Jesus 

 Christ. 



All the evangelists record direct prophecies by our Lord of his 

 coming death. 



Lieut. -Colonel Moloxy pointed out that a very strong line of 

 evidence as regards the empty tomb is deducible from Matthew xxviii. 

 15. 



Mr. Theodoee Roberts classed himself with those sometimes 

 called unbelieving believers, saying he would have been a rank 

 atheist had he not been a Christian. In driving through the 

 cemetery of a large Lancashire town last week, which he was told 

 contained a larger population of dead than these living in the town, 

 and realizing that even one of our London cemeteries contained 

 near ten millions of dead, it seemed hard to believe that the greater 

 part of this vast number of dead (for he was assured that the 

 majority of the human race would benefit by the work of Christ) 



