Christ in All the Scriptures by A.M. Hodgkin

• Title Page
• Introduction
  • The Testimony of Christ to the Scriptures
  • The Testimony of the Scriptures to Christ
• Christ in the Pentateuch
• Christ in the Historical Books
• Christ in the Poetical Books
• Christ in the Prophets
• Christ in His Life on Earth
• Christ in Resurrection Power
• Christ in Future Glory

though the soldiers brake the legs of the two thieves to hasten their death, “when they came to Jesus, and saw that He was dead already, they brake not His legs: but one of the soldiers pierced His side, and forthwith came there out blood and water …. For these things were done, that the Scriptures might be fulfilled, A bone of Him shall not be broken. And again, They shall look on Him whom they pierced” (John 19:32-37; Exodus 12:46; Psalms 34:20; Zechariah 12:10). Isaiah tells us that “though they had made His grave with the wicked”—that is, intended to bury Him in the place where they buried malefactors—yet it was ordered otherwise, and He was actually buried “with the rich in His death.” “For there came a rich man of Arimathaea named Joseph … and begged the body of Jesus … and laid it in his own new tomb” (Isaiah 53:9; Matthew 27:57-60).

But the vision of the prophets stretched beyond the Cross and the tomb, and embraced the resurrection and ascension and final triumph of the Savior. David sings: “Thou wilt not leave My soul in hell; neither wilt Thou suffer Thine Holy One to see corruption. Thou wilt show Me the path of life: in Thy presence is fulness of joy; at Thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Psalms 16:10-11). And Isaiah, after he has prophesied the humiliation and death of the Messiah, closes the same prophecy with these remarkable words: “When Thou shalt make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand. He shall see of the travail of His soul, and shall be satisfied” (Isaiah 53:10-11).

From the remotest past the saints looked forward to events which still lie before us in the future. “Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of His saints, to execute judgment upon all” (Jude 14). The patriarch Job said: “I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth … whom I shall see for myself” (Job 19:25-26). Zechariah had a vision of the Mount of Olives with the Lord standing there, King over all the earth, and all the saints with Him (Zechariah 14:4-9).

And as the prophecies of the past have been fulfilled, so certainly shall also the prophecies of the future. “Now we see not yet all things put under Him, but we see Jesus, crowned with glory and honour” (Hebrews 2:8-9). And He says, “Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.”