Excerpt from The Princeton Review, Vol. 37: October, 1865 Repelled by him, will judge that his (john's) attempt has turned out rather harshly. Jesus adds moreover as a special reason of this repulse, that his hour had not yet come. It is the concurrent view of the first three Evangelists that no man, but God the Father alone, knows the day and the hour of the advent of the Messiah, (matt. Xxiv. 36, xxv. 13; Mark xiii. 32; Acts i. Which ignorance the second Evangelist expressly extends also to the Son, the Messiah. While here God alone knows, and men, more or less explicitly the Messiah also, are ignorant, the fourth Gospel, in characteristic significance Of its entire standpoint, opposes to ignorant men the Son of God, the incarnate Logos, as the only One who does know, and the time and hour referred to relate not to his future coming, but to his present glorification; first by miracles, and finally by his death. This latter is referred to, when it is often said that the persecutions of his enemies were unsuccessful, because his hour had not yet come, (v11. 30, viii. And afterwards that he had known and declared that his hour had come, (x11. 23, xiii. On the other hand, the reference is to the time of his public appearance at Jerusalem, of which he says to his bro thers that it had not yet come, (vii. 6, just as here he replies to his mether that the hour of his working miracles had not yet arrived; although here, as there, he speedily under takes that which he was desired to do before the proper time. That Mary knows this beforehand, and in consequence of this knowledge charges the servants to do what her Son might command them, serves to raise her again, while she, although reminded of her distance from him that is above all, (iii. Does not relinquish the hold of her knowledge. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.