David Baron, Israel's Inalienable Possesions… (1906)
“ E 50 ISRAEL'S ADOPTION which Israel was called. To us, too, if we be Christ's, belongeth the huiothesia the sonship "for as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear ; but ye have received the spirit of sonship, whereby we cry Abba, Father. The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit that we are the children of God " (Rom. viii. 14-16) . ”
David Baron, Israel's Inalienable Possesions… (1906)
“ It is beautiful to note in that same third chapter of Jeremiah, where, 'in the second part, a glimpse is given us of the future when Jerusalem shall be called the throne of Jehovah we read, " But I (Jehovah) said, How shall I put thee among the children and give thee a goodly heritage of the hosts of the nations ? ”
David Baron, Israel's Inalienable Possesions… (1906)
“ ISRAEL'S ADOPTION 47 call Me, Abi ('my Father') , and shall not turn away from follow- ing Me" (vers. 17-19) . "Wilt thou not from this time cry unto Me, Abi ? " Not yet has Israel as a nation apprehended that for which they were apprehended of God ; not yet has the people as a whole re- sponded to their high calling and looked up to the God of heaven and earth, crying, " My Father." But to them pertaineth the huiothesia the sonship, and in the end Jehovah has pledged Himself to bring them, actually and experimentally, into this blessed relationship. ”
