Vulgar words in Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII (Page 1)
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A remarkable way of making 'thine ox and thine ass' keep the Sabbath!
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There is an old play which has for its title, _The Devil as an Ass._ He is not such an ass as that, to build up with one hand and cast down with the other.
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Saying unto them, Go into the village over against you, and straightway ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her: loose them, and bring them unto Me.
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Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass.
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Certainly that calm figure, sitting on the slow-pacing ass, with the noisy multitude pressing round Him, is strangely unlike Him, who hid Himself among the hills when they sought to make Him a King.
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A strange King this, indeed, who has not even an ass of His own, and for followers, peasants with palm branches instead of swords!
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What would a Roman soldier or one of Herod's men have thought of that rustic procession of a pauper prince on an ass, and a hundred or two of weaponless, penniless men?
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A NEW KIND OF KING 'All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, Tell ye the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass.'--MATT.
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All were in a quiver of expectation; and knowing that, Jesus Christ originates this scene by His act of sending the two disciples into the village over against them, to 'bring the ass, and the colt the foal of an ass.'
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Immediately upon that vision of the meek King throned on the colt the foal of an ass, follows this: 'And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horses from Jerusalem; and the battle bow shall be cut off, and He shall speak peace unto the heathen.'
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That is the Christ who came into Jerusalem on the colt the foal of an ass.