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32. Standing by the Saviour.
The reflections in regard to the passage before us that
occur to us at the present time are these: Some were standing
where Jesus was, having the footsteps of the soul firmly planted with
Jesus, and the standing of their feet was akin to the standing of which
Moses said in the passage, “And I stood on the mountain forty
days and forty nights,”5760 who was deemed
worthy to have it said to him by God who asked him to stand by Him,
“But stand thou here with Me.”5761 Those who really stand by
Jesus—that is, by the Word of God—do not all stand equally;
for among those who stand by Jesus are differences from each
other. Wherefore, not all who stand by the Saviour, but some of
them as standing better, do not taste of death until they shall have
seen the Word who dwelt with men, and on that account called Son of
man, coming in His own kingdom; for Jesus does not always come in His
own kingdom when He comes, since to the newly initiated He is such that
they might say, beholding the Word Himself not glorious nor great, but
inferior to many among them, “We saw Him, and He had no form or
beauty, but His form was dishonoured, defective compared with all the
sons of men.”5762 And these
things will be said by those who beheld His glory in connection with
their own former times, when at first the Word as understood in the
synagogue had no form nor beauty to them. To the Word, therefore,
who has assumed most manifestly the power above all words, there
belongs a royal dignity which is visible to some of those who stand by
Jesus, when they have been able to follow Him as He goes before them
and ascends to the lofty mountain of His own manifestation. And
of this honour some of those who stand by Jesus are deemed worthy if
they be either a Peter against whom the gates of Hades do not prevail,
or the sons of thunder,5763 and are begotten of
the mighty voice of God who thunders and cries aloud from heaven great
things to those who have ears and are wise. Such at least do not
taste death.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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