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of Paulinism. 1 It is in Ignatius and the subsequent
theology that the antithesis of the devil and God
in the saving work of Christ becomes really prominent.

(iv) Finally, it is this revelation of love as the
character of God the Father which involves the
tremendous severity of judgment upon those who
are guilty of the worst sin in the world -- the sin
against love, deliberate rejection of love as the
one power of life. 2 It is to this conviction of Jesus
about the Father that His passionate invectives
against all who misrepresented God are due, as well
as His warnings against those who deliberately
trifled with the love of God, or with its costly
expression in His own mission. The full orb of the
divine Fatherhood, in the gospels, includes majesty
and awe as well as loving-kindness. The modern
sentimental view of the Fatherhood as celestial
good-nature is wholly inadequate to the teaching
of Jesus, either as regards the forgiveness or the
punishment of sins.

The implicates of forgiveness are brought out in
the tremendous saying ( Matt. x. 28= Luke xii. 4-5):
Be not afraid of those who kill the body, but are
unable to kill the soul. Rather be afraid of him who
is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna. Or,
in the fuller Lucan version: I tell you, my friends,

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1 In the eschatological section of Matt. xxv. 31 f. the righteous
inherit the kingdom prepared for them before the foundation of the
world, whereas the selfish and worldly are consigned to the eternal
fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels.
2 On the Jewish scheme, the judgment formed an essential part of
the doctrine of the Law. When the latter was replaced or restated
as love to God, implying love to one's neighbour, the conception
of the divine judgment was correspondingly humanised and at the
same time rendered more stringent.

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Publication Information: Book Title: The Theology of the Gospels. Contributors: James Moffatt - author. Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1913. Page Number: 121.
    
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