Scripture and Nature Testifying to Christ; Or, the Analogy Between Horticulture and Divine Human-Culture [By C. Hoxley]. - Tapa blanda

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1872 Excerpt: ... Part III--chapter VIII. CHAPTER VIIL SYMBOLIC VALUE OF THE TREE OF LIFE. "I AM ALPHA AND OMEGA, THE BEGINNING AND THE END, THE FIRST AND THE LASTr" "Behold the Lamb of God, which faketh away the sin of the world."--John i. 29; Gen. iv. 4. Behold "The Tree of Life, whose leares are for the healing of the nations."--Rev. xxii. 2; Gen. ii. 9.?-EHOLD the twin Hieroglyphics!--Morning-star harbingers of the Divine goodwill to man! Each, on the inspired page, standing out in sculptured basrelief from the foundation of the world. One expressing, in easy type, the great Atonement: the other, with more latent meaning, symbolizing the Divine source of eternal life to man; each being the complement of the other. The Atonement clearing away all impediments to, and establishing a platform for, the free exercise of Redeeming love in the Regenerating grace. In this sense--Behold, also, "The Rose of Sharon:" for "The desert shall rejoice and biossom as the Rose; it shall blossom abundantly" (Isa. xxxv. i, 2). In the following reflections, in connexion with much in the preceding chapters, the endeavour will be to show, informally and suggestively, that the mystic transcendental Tree of Life--in Scripture the first and last Divine symbol--has ever stood in the same relation to the undeveloped " Mystery of Godliness," that the acorn, as a seed, does to the undeveloped oak-tree. In this respect--to us, in this far-off day, if not to the Ancients--it is an anticipative emblem of great value as an internal evidence of revealed truth. The question therefore may be raised--What, as a teaching symbol, is the specific design--the figurative utility, of that central and conspicuous Tree of Life, as seen, "in the beginning," "in the midst of the garden of Eden," and again in the A...