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"O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory
into shame?" - Psalm 4:2
An instructive writer has made a mournful list of the honours which the blinded
people of Israel awarded to their long expected King.
1. They gave him a procession of honour, in which Roman legionaries, Jewish
priests, men and women, took a part, he himself bearing his cross. This is the
triumph which the world awards to him who comes to overthrow man's direst foes.
Derisive shouts are his only acclamations, and cruel taunts his only paeans of
praise.
2. They presented him with the wine of honour. Instead of a golden cup of
generous wine they offered him the criminal's stupefying death-draught, which he
refused because he would preserve an uninjured taste wherewith to taste of
death; and afterwards when he cried, "I thirst," they gave him vinegar mixed
with gall, thrust to his mouth upon a sponge. Oh! wretched, detestable
inhospitality to the King's Son.
3. He was provided with a guard of honour, who showed their esteem of him by
gambling over his garments, which they had seized as their booty. Such was the
body-guard of the adored of heaven; a quaternion of brutal gamblers.
4. A throne of honour was found for him upon the bloody tree; no easier place of
rest would rebel men yield to their liege Lord. The cross was, in fact, the full
expression of the world's feeling towards him; "There," they seemed to say,
"thou Son of God, this is the manner in which God himself should be treated,
could we reach him. "
5. The title of honour was nominally "King of the Jews," but that the blinded
nation distinctly repudiated, and really called him "King of thieves," by
preferring Barabbas, and by placing Jesus in the place of highest shame between
two thieves. His glory was thus in all things turned into shame by the sons of
men, but it shall yet gladden the eyes of saints and angels, world without end.
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