![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Through taunts and derision, through blasphemous challenge and diabolical goading, the agonized Christ was silent” (page 658). As a young man, he was offered a well-paid position with the Provo public schools. Was it possible in this the final and most dreadful stage of Christ's mission, to make Him doubt His divine Sonship, or, failing such, to taunt or anger the dying Savior into the use of His superhuman powers for personal relief or as an act of vengeance upon His tormentors? To achieve such a victory was Satan's desperate purpose. Long before he wrote Jesus the Christ, James Edward Talmage was a man committed to the Lord. That ‘If’ was Satan’s last shaft, keenly barbed and doubly envenomed, and it sped as with the fierce hiss of a viper. “The dominant note in all the railings and revilings, the ribaldry and mockery, with which the patient and submissive Christ was assailed while He hung, ‘lifted up’ as He had said He would be, was that awful ‘If’ hurled at Him by the devil's emissaries in the time of mortal agony as in the season of the temptations immediately after His baptism it had been most insidiously pressed upon Him by the devil himself. ![]()
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