the-book-of-enoch-r-h-charles - Fallen Angels

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priests and scribes and be put to death (St. Luke 9^^), and yet be
the Judge of all mankind (St. John 5^'^).
It has been objected that St. Matt. 16^3 St. John 12'* prove
that the Son of Man was not a current designation of the
Messiah in the time of Christ; but no such conclusion can be
drawn from these passages ; for in the older form of the question
given in St. Matt. 16^^ the words 'the Son of Man' are not
found : see St. Mark 8^^ St. Luke Qis. In St. John 12^* it is just
the strangeness of this new conception of this current phrase of
a Messiah who was to suffer death, that makes the people ask
' Who is this Son of Man ? we have heard of the law that the
Christ abideth for ever\
On the other hand, though the phrase was to some extent
a current one/ our Lord's use of it must have been an enigma,
not only to the people generally, but also to His immediate
disciples, so much so that they shrank from using it ; for, as we
know, it is used in the Gospels only by our Lord in speaking of
Himself.
' On the survival of its use as a Son of Man, he will at last repent it
Messianic designation see Jer. Taanith I ascend to heaven, if he said it he
ii. 1 :
' R. Abbahu said, If a man says will not prove it.'
to thee—I am God, he lies ; T am the
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