Friday, February 4, 2011

Christ is the great pattern, to which all are to be conformed

"The prophets and apostles of old are proposed to us as examples in a variety of respects: but we are to follow men no further than they themselves followed Christ. Christ is the great pattern, to which all are to be conformed: and so fully is his character delineated in the Holy Scriptures, that we can scarcely ever be at a loss to know either what he did, or what he would have done, in any circumstances of life."

Charles Simeon, Horae Homileticae Vol. 12: Mark-Luke. London, 1832-63, S. 268

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