Footnote 39:  The Kingdom of God, p. 203.

Footnote 40:  In his famous sermon on the Pharisees, University
Sermons, p. 32.

Footnote 41:  R.W.  Church, Gifts of Civilisation, p. 71.

Footnote 42:  Prov. iv. 7:  “Get wisdom; and with all thy getting get understanding,” which does not mean simply, “Whatever else you get, be sure to get understanding.”  The marginal reference is to Matt. xiii. 44:  wisdom, like the pearl of great price, is to be secured with, i.e. at the cost and sacrifice of, everything else that can be gotten. (See J.R.  Lumby on “Shortcomings of Translation,” Expositor, second series, VOL. iii. p. 203.)

Footnote 43:  2 Cor. v. 9 R.V. margin.

Footnote 44:  Laws of Christ for Common Life, p. 59.

Footnote 45:  Bible Characters:  Stephen to Timothy, p. 95.

Footnote 46:  On the Authorized Version of the New Testament, p. 14.

Footnote 47:  I am indebted for these two quotations to Bishop Paget’s Spirit of Discipline, p. 66.

Footnote 48:  P. Carnegie Simpson, The Fact of Christ, pp. 116, 117.

Footnote 49:  Time and Tide, p. 224.

Footnote 50:  F.G.  Peabody, Jesus Christ and the Social Problem, p. 219.

Footnote 51:  Emerson had surely overlooked this nobler meaning of the word when he wrote, “They [the English] put up no Socratic prayer, much less any saintly prayer, for the queen’s mind; ask neither for light nor right, but say bluntly, ‘grant her in health and wealth long to live’” (English Traits).

Footnote 52:  To those who are interested in the subject of this chapter Prof.  Peabody’s book already referred to, and an article entitled “The Teaching of Christ concerning the Use of Money” (Expositor, third series, vol. viii. p. 100 ff.) may be recommended.

Footnote 53:  Studies in Theology, p. 239.

Footnote 54:  “There is no subject on which it is more difficult to ascertain the teaching of Christ than that which relates to the future of the kingdom.”—­A.B.  Bruce, The Kingdom of God, p. 273.

Footnote 55:  J. Agar Beet, The Last Things, p. 46.

Footnote 56:  Marcus Dods, The Parables of our Lord (first series), p. 238.

Footnote 57:  Cathedral and University Sermons, p. 10.

Footnote 58:  John Watson, The Mind of the Master, pp. 203, 204.

Footnote 59:  See T.G.  Selby’s Imperfect Angel and other Sermons, p. 211.  Cf.  Zachariah Coleman in “Mark Rutherford’s” Revolution in Tanners Lane:  “That is a passage that I never could quite understand.  I never hardly see a pure breed, either of goat or sheep.  I never see anybody who deserves to go straight to heaven or who deserves to go straight to hell.  When the Judgment Day comes it will be a difficult task.”