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290 General Index
History (Thucydides), 82
Holy Spirit, 17, 44, 57, 75, 103, 120,
124, 186, 276; Christian faith
and the work of the Holy Spirit,
283; gifts of, 107; guiding of the
apostles by, 250; internal testimony
of, 184–85, 187–88, 190; necessity
of, 190–91; as the one who
testifies, 188–89; and Scripture,
101; as the “Spirit of truth,” 58–59,
63, 188–189; work of in securing
prophētikon logon (Greek: the
“prophetic word”), 75
Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 200–201
Hosea, 95
human agency, 74, 272; necessity of,
278–79
“Invictus” (Henley), 30
Isaiah, on the glory of God, 218–20
Ishii, Tokichi, 173–74
Islam, 84–85
Jacob, 75
James, on the word of truth, 257
Jehoiakim, 48
Jeremiah, 93, 95
Jesus Christ, 16, 41, 90, 94, 122, 140,
161–62, 263, 276; abandonment of
by his disciples, 111–12; apostolic
teaching inspired by as the foundational
authority for all history,
61–62; authority of as equal to and
beyond the Old Testament Scriptures,
53, 55–56, 117; belief of that
words matter, 70–71; cleansing
of the temple by, 110; as Creator
and creature in one nature, 160;
death of, 141; as the embodiment
of God’s peculiar glory, 221–23; as
the fulfillment of the Law and the
Prophets, 55; grace of, 107; and the
Hebrew Bible, 46–48, 49; as the
ideal prophet, 93; incarnation of,
124, 220; Islamic view of, 84–85; as
the light of the world, 260–62; the
lion and the lamb united in, 224–
25; meekness of, 224–25; ministry
of, 110–11 118; preparation of for
the New Testament canon, 56–58;
promise of that God will send the
Holy Spirit (the Spirit of truth) for
guidance, 58–59, 60; the public’s
response to the parables of, 110;
resurrection of, 70, 129; and the
Sadducees, 103–5; salvation given
only through Jesus, 39–40, 46;
shocking claims Jesus made about
himself, 53–54; transcendence of,
224; transfiguration of, 244–49,
245n1; uniqueness of, 52, 117, 160.
See also Jesus Christ, beauty of;
Jesus Christ, glory of; Jesus Christ,
miracles of; Jesus Christ, and the
Old Testament
Jesus Christ, beauty of, 161; embodiment
of, 144–45; proclamation of,
143–44; spiritual beauty of, 108
Jesus Christ, glory of, 141, 142, 170,
189–90, 212, 261–62; foreknowledge
of Jesus’s glory, 234–35;
superior glory of, 248
Jesus Christ, miracles of, 107; at Cana,
248; feeding of the five thousand,
241; as the foundation of faith,
248; the link between miracles,
glory, and faith, 240; the peculiar
glory of the miracles and Scripture,
249–50; turning of water into wine,
242; unbelief among Jesus’s brothers
concerning, 241–42
Jesus Christ, and the Old Testament,
99–101, 112–13; and the impeccability
of the Old Testament
Scriptures, 103–4; Jesus’s defeating
of Satan’s temptations by using
the Scriptures, 104–6; Jesus’s selfknowledge
of his fulfillment of
Scripture, 109–12; Jesus’s estimate
of the Old Testament as a test of
spiritual sight, 106–9; and the
Psalms, 101–2; on the Scriptures
as unbreakable, 102–3; view of
Moses’s words as the words of God,
102