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An historical review including exposures of past and present calumnies employed in attempts to discredit these truths.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iv
Preface .................................................... v
Section 10: The sufferings of Christ . . . ......................... 1
Chapter 10.1: Background to the Controversy . . ................. 3
Introduction ............................................. 3
Why JND Wrote on the Subject of Christ’s Sufferings . . . . . . . . . 3
Some Background to the Controversy . . . . . . . ................. 5
What Was the Moral Root of These Attacks? . ................. 9
JND Thought of Withdrawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Chapter 10.2: The Sufferings of Christ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Kinds of Sufferings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Purpose of Christ’s Sufferings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Christ’s State of Soul in Suffering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
The Elements Involved in the Charges Against JND . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Chapter 10.3: The Charge of Holding a Non-atoning Death . . . . . . . 17
Chapter 10.4: A Few Words on the Sufferings of Christ &c. . . . . . . 25
Chapter 10.5: The Charge of Newtonism and Heresy . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Charges Made by Open Brethren . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Comments of Others . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Some Contrast Between JND and B. W. Newton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
B. W. Newton Said Brethren Opposed Him. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Notes for Section 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Section 11: J. N. Darby: His Translation Work,Writings, and Person 39
Chapter 11.1: J. N. Darby’s Translation Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
The Darby Translations, by Arnold D. Ehlert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
French . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
German . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Dutch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
English . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Swedish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Italian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
The History of the Origin of the Elberfelder Bibel
German Text by Verlag R. Brockhaus
Translated by Reinhard J. Buss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
The German "Elberfeld Bibel" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Introductory Notice to the 1890 English Edition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Further Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Are Committee translations better? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
What is Sin? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Chapter 11.2: J. N. Darby’s Writings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
W. Kelly’s Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
G. V. Wigram’s Observation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
E. W. Rogers’ Appreciation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
E. R. Sandeen did not Understand JND . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Jon Zens’ Ridiculous Claim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Wm. Reid’s Appreciation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Chapter 11.3: J. N. Darby Personally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Some Comments by W. B. Neatby . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Was JND an Imperious Ecclesiastic? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Other Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Some Open-Brethren Evaluations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Anna Loizeaux’s Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
John Nelson Darby in the Cevennes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
W. Kelly’s Reminiscences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Last Letter of J. G. Bellett to J. N. Darby. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Reply of J. N. Darby to J. G. Bellett. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
A Letter Left by JND . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Notes for Section 11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Appendix 1: A Caution to the Readers of "A Caution
Against the Darbyites" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Appendix 2: Elements of the Sufferings of Christ Controversy . . . . 101
Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Index of Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109