(This is an edited version of the third chapter of Mauro’s book.) I showed at the outset how the Gospel for which Paul was persecuted by the Jews and imprisoned, was equated with the ‘hope of Israel’. Paul’s credentials lie in the fact that he persecuted the church, and was stopped in his tracks by God’s […]
On the Literal Interpretation of Prophecy – Part 2 of ‘The Hope of Israel’
October 4, 2012 by
(This is an edited version of the second chapter of Mauro’s book, The Hope of Israel.) The main purpose of this chapter is to demonstrate that the contrast in Scripture is not between the spiritual and the literal, but between the spiritual and the natural. A passage of Scripture, when taken ‘literally,’ may refer either to ‘that […]
Not Paying Heed to Jewish Fables – Part 1 of ‘The Hope of Israel’
October 4, 2012 by
(This is an edited version of the preamble and first chapter of Mauro’s book, The Hope of Israel.) Jewish fables (literally, myths) are no new thing. Paul has plainly warned the household of faith not to heed them. He has not given us a list of those grievous heresies; but it is well known that the one […]
The Law of Christ
October 4, 2012 by
This is an edited version of chapter ten of Mauro’s book, The Gospel of the Kingdom, first published in 1927. It shows that salvation by grace brings us under the Law of Christ – God’s law for the kingdom age – which is willingly obeyed by every believer. THE character of every Kingdom is expressed in its law. Next […]
Dispensationalism justifies the Crucifixion
October 4, 2012 by
“The place that is called Calvary” (Luke 23:33) has obtained an enduring and hallowed distinction far above and beyond all other localities of earth, because at that place the death sentence was duly executed that had been pronounced by two tribunals – the Jewish and the Roman, the ecclesiastical and the civil – upon Jesus […]
