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deemed, or, as Paul expresses it, ( Ephesians 3:15) ‘the whole family in heaven and earth.’ Kingdom of heaven and church are not identical, though inseparately and closely connected. The churches of Christ are the external manifestations of this kingdom in the world.” f25 In an excellent article in Smith’s Bible Dictionary. f26 A. Hovey, D.D., President Newton Theological Seminary, says: “This kingdom, though in its nature spiritual, was to have, while on earth, the visible form in Christian Churches, and the simple rites belonging to church life were to be observed by every loyal subject ( Matthew 28:18; John 3:5; Acts 2:38 Luke 21:17: 1 Corinthians 11:24.) It cannot, however, be said that the New Testament makes the spiritual kingdom of Christ exactly co-extensive with the visible church. There are many in the latter who do not belong to the former, ( 1 John 2:9,) and some, doubtless, in the former, who do not take their place in the latter.” Tholuck: “A kingdom of God — that is an organic commonwealth.” “The New Testament kingdom of God, is both from within and from without, in the individual as in the whole community.” “The idea of the kingdom of God … is an organized community, which has its principle of life in the will of the personal God.” f27 In the invisible church and kingdom theory are all disorganizers who reject baptism and church organization. Under the pretense of great zeal and spirituality they make the invisible everything and the organization nothing. This is illustrated by the following from The Watchman, of Boston: “But, of late, there has been a marked disposition among certain thinkers to contrast the ‘kingdom’ with the ‘church,’ to the disadvantage of the latter. What we need to-day, they say, is not to strengthen the church, but to extend the kingdom of God; to work for the reorganization of society and the influence of Christian principles and motives in every department of life, and not for the salvation of individual men and women, which is the peculiar work of the church. Some of these writers have gone so far as to imply that the church is the greatest obstacle in the way of the advance of the kingdom of God.” As Luke 17:21 is the main passage for an invisible kingdom, I submit the following from that critical scholar, Dr. Geo. Varden: “The weight of critical authority inclines mightily to ‘in your midst.’ Lexicon Pasoris (1735) so renders. Raphel (Notre Philologicoe 1749) similarly. Rosenmuller (Scholia, 1803) seeks to show at some length that, though entos may in general mean within, the character of the persons addressed forces the
other meaning. Bretschneider (Lexicon, 1829) translates, ‘The founder of the divine kingdom is already in your midst.’ Alford (Critical Greek Testament) ‘The misunderstanding which rendered these words within you, should have been prevented by reflecting that they are addressed to the Pharisees, in whose hearts it certainly was not.’ Then, ‘among you’ is the marginal reading of the authorized version: and it has justly been said that, as a rule, these readings are preferable to the text. Moreover, the latest revision of the A.B. Union reads, ‘The kingdom of God is in the midst of you.’ Writes Thayer in his Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (the latest and by many regarded the best) ‘In the midst of you, others within you (id est, in your souls) a meaning which the use of the word permits, but not the context.’ And Godet, in his recent critical Commentary on Luke, writes, ‘These words are explained by almost all modem interpreters in the sense of in the midst of you.’” To this I add the words of Dr. Bloomfield, on this passage: “Is among you … On this interpretation the best commentators are agreed and adduce examples of this use of ento
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other meaning. Bretschneider (Lexicon, 1829) translates, ‘The founder of the<br />
divine kingdom is already in your midst.’ Alford (Critical Greek Testament)<br />
‘The misunderstanding which rendered these words within you, should have<br />
been prevented by reflecting that they are addressed to the Pharisees, in<br />
whose hearts it certainly was not.’ Then, ‘among you’ is the marginal reading<br />
of the authorized version: and it has justly been said that, as a rule, these<br />
readings are preferable to the text. Moreover, the latest revision of the A.B.<br />
Union reads, ‘The kingdom of God is in the midst of you.’ Writes Thayer in<br />
his Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (the latest and by many regarded the<br />
best) ‘In the midst of you, others within you (id est, in your souls) a meaning<br />
which the use of the word permits, but not the context.’ And Godet, in his<br />
recent critical Commentary on Luke, writes, ‘These words are explained by<br />
almost all modem interpreters in the sense of in the midst of you.’”<br />
To this I add the words of Dr. Bloomfield, on this passage:<br />
“Is among you … On this interpretation the best commentators are agreed and<br />
adduce examples of this use of ento
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