The Mystery of the Kingdom
Overview
Originally delivered as a series of lectures on the books of Samuel and Kings, Andrew J. Jukes offers valuable exegesis, while focusing on the difficult transition from theocracy to monarchy. Jukes distinguishes between use of literal and figurative language within the text, and seeks to elucidate the inherent meaning within the passages.
Top Highlights
“He sees that what is said of Israel is ‘not of private interpretation.’ For he feels that in all points it applies to him. And the more he meditates upon these subjects, the more is he amazed at the fulness and exactness of the analogy between himself and Israel. But he soon gets a step further. He has felt the application of the history to himself. He soon finds, that, if it is true of himself, it is true of the whole Church; nay, that it is only true of himself in virtue of his relation to that Church, and as one member of that redeemed body.” (Page 17)
“There is a ‘kingdom of God within us,’1 in which the same principles act and have their course as in that kingdom which is without us or external. And it will be found throughout that there is no one principle which applies to the outward kingdom or to the body, which does not equally apply to the individual Christian and the kingdom of God within.” (Page 41)
“Let us now take an example where this order is reversed, and where a passage, which in the Old Testament speaks of Christ, is in the New directly applied to Christians.” (Page 11)
“Just so are we. The very words which in letter apply to them, in spirit equally apply to us also” (Page 25)
“Ezekiel’s vision, ‘as if a wheel were within a wheel,’ while yet also ‘the wheels are full of eyes round about.” (Page 26)
The book is remarkable as an effort to substantiate the fact of a developmental process in prophecy and revelation, the principle laid down being that God invariably adapts Himself to the condition of those whom He addresses; and the point is aptly and ingeniously illustrated in many ways . . . we have found it to be effective and interesting.
—The British Quarterly Review
- Title: The Mystery of the Kingdom: Traced through the Four Books of Kings
- Author: Andrew Jukes
- Edition: Third Edition
- Publisher: Thomas Whittaker
- Print Publication Date: 1884
- Logos Release Date: 2012
- Pages: 127
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Bible. O.T. 1 Samuel › Meditations; Bible. O.T. 2 Samuel › Meditations; Bible. O.T. 1 Kings › Meditations; Bible. O.T. 2 Kings › Meditations
- Resource ID: LLS:KINGSJUKES
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T04:14:47Z
Andrew J. Jukes (1815–1901) was a prolific author and clergyman educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. His other major works include The Law of the Offerings, The Restitution of All Things, Four Views of Christ, and The Differences of the Four Gospels.