Mark 14:43-52 - Homilies By E. Johnson

Violence and meekness.

I. THE INFLUENCE OF SELF - COMMAND SELF - COMMAND . HOW majestic does the Savior appear in this refusal to employ force against force! Moral grandeur is illustrated against the background of brute violence. It is but the show of violence that can ever be opposed to the majesty of truth. The Divine and the spiritual is conscious that it cannot be hurt. Evil, having no real substance nor personality, flees from it.

II. IN THE PROVIDENCE OF GOD IS OUR SURE REFUGE AMIDST THE PREVALENCE OF EVIL . "Thus it is, and thus it must be." Chance is an unmeaning word, when the soul is bound up in God's will.

"This is he men miscall Fate,

Threading dark ways, arriving late;

But ever coming in time to crown

The truth, and hurl wrong-doers down."