On the appearance of Christ (Thomas Goodwin)

[Reformed Covenanter]

For sad occurrences and events befalling him from the dispensation of providence, and the enmity of the creatures, there were more befell him than ever befell any man. He was vir dolorum, a 'man of sorrows,' which did all wear and waste him, as griefs use to do us, so that in the judgment of those that saw him, he looked nearer fifty years old than thirty, as that known speech may seem to import. Furthermore, we never read that he once laughed in his lifetime.

Thomas Goodwin, A Discourse of Christ the Mediator (London, 1642) in The Works of Thomas Goodwin (12 vols, Edinburgh: James Nisbet, 1861-66), 5: 194.

N.B. I do not buy the argument about Christ never laughing.

 

[Jeri Tanner]

For sad occurrences and events befalling him from the dispensation of providence, and the enmity of the creatures, there were more befell him than ever befell any man. He was vir dolorum, a 'man of sorrows,' which did all wear and waste him, as griefs use to do us, so that in the judgment of those that saw him, he looked nearer fifty years old than thirty, as that known speech may seem to import. Furthermore, we never read that he once laughed in his lifetime.

Thomas Goodwin, A Discourse of Christ the Mediator (London, 1642) in The Works of Thomas Goodwin (12 vols, Edinburgh: James Nisbet, 1861-66), 5: 194.

N.B. I do not buy the argument about Christ never laughing.

What is the known speech he refers to?

 

[Reformed Covenanter]

What is the known speech he refers to?

John 8:57.

 

[Jeri Tanner]

John 8:57.

Interesting.