Vulgar words in Expositions of Holy Scripture - St. Mark (Page 1)
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An old play is entitled, 'The Devil is an Ass,' but he is not such an ass as to fight against himself.
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'The devil is an ass.'
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O daughter of Zion; thy King cometh unto thee riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.'
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Remember, He came once on 'a colt, the foal of an ass, meek, and having salvation.'
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I hope you are wiser than to fancy that Zechariah's prophecy of the peaceful monarch who was to come to Zion, meek and victorious, and riding upon a 'colt the foal of an ass,' was fulfilled by the outward fact of Christ being mounted on this colt 'whereon never man sat.'
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The literal fulfilment was a kind of finger-post for inattentive onlookers, which might induce them to look more closely, and so see that He was indeed the King Messiah, because of more important correspondences with prophecy than His once riding on an ass.
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He needs nothing, and yet He needed that ass which was tethered at 'the place where two ways met,' in order to ride into Jerusalem upon it.
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'Behold the place whore they laid Him.'