Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (to II Corinthians, Chap. V)
1906
Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (to II Corinthians, Chap. V)
1906
Alexander Maclaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture represents the distilled wisdom of one of the Victorian era's most revered Baptist preachers. Here, Maclaren brings his formidable gifts of exposition to Romans and Second Corinthians, two of Paul's most theologically rich epistles. His approach is neither dry academic commentary nor simple devotional musing, but something rarer: a learned preacher wrestling Scripture into clarity for the sake of the church. He moves from verse to doctrine with characteristic clarity, illuminating Paul's arguments about grace, faith, resurrection, and the responsibilities of belonging to Christ. The passages on Christ's resurrection as the foundation of Christian hope and on the intimate designation of believers as God's beloved saints showcase why Maclaren's sermons were considered events. This is a book for anyone who wants to understand Romans not as abstract theology but as life-altering truth, and who appreciates prose that treats sacred texts with both intellectual rigor and reverent care.
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“God looks on the upright, as has been said; and the upright shall gaze on Him.... That mutual gaze is blessedness. They who looking up behold Jehovah are brave to front all foes and to keep calm hearts in the midst of alarms. Hope burns like a pillar of fire in them when it is gone out in others; and to all the suggestions of their own timidity or of others they have the answer, "In the Lord have I put my trust; how say ye to my soul, Flee? Here I stand; I can do no otherwise. God help me. Amen.””
— Alexander Maclaren
“Lord, I cannot walk in the narrow path. Do Thou Thyself come to me and fill my heart and keep my feet.””
— Alexander Maclaren
“You have nothing to do but to receive the things that are freely given to you of God”
— Alexander Maclaren
“In the religious life it is possible to commit an analogous error, and to prize so unwisely peaceful hours of communion, as to waive imperative duty for the sake of them; like Peter with his "Let us make here three tabernacles," while there were devil-ridden sufferers waiting to be healed down on the plain. Moments of devotion, which do not prepare for hours of practical righteousness, are very untrustworthy. But, on the other hand, the paths of righteousness will not be trodden by those who have known nothing of the green pastures and waters where the wearied can rest.””
— Alexander Maclaren
“Self-preservation is not a man’s first duty: flight is his last. Better and wiser and infinitely nobler to stand a mark for the "slings and arrows of outrageous fortune" and to stop at our post though we fall there, better infinitely to toil on, even when toil seems vain, than cowardly to keep a whole skin at the cost of a wounded conscience or despairingly to fling up work, because the ground is hard and the growth of the seed imperceptible. Prudent advices, when the prudence is only inspired by sense, are generally foolish.””
— Alexander Maclaren
“True love is an intense desire for the presence of its object. God is only ours in reality when we are conscious of His nearness, and that is strange love of Him which is content to pass days without ever setting Him before itself.””
— Alexander Maclaren
