1. Death, the terminus of suffering, as in the Lord, so to each saint. (2 Tim. 2:8.)
2. Death, the object proposed in the humiliation, was the result of God's grace, and is presented for the church's admiration, as that by which Christ united the two extremes, namely, the divine glory which He saw in God, to be the church's, and the abject thraldom in which she lay under the devil; thereby redeeming the church from under the hand of the devil, destroying his power, and bringing her into the liberty of that divine nature which, in God, He saw to be hers (Heb. 2:9-14)
3. Death, the especial subject of the Lord's fear. (Heb. 5:7.)
4. The redemption of transgression under the first covenant, and the ratification and confirmation of the second. (Heb. 9:15, 16.)
5. That from which our Lord Jesus, as the great Shepherd of the sheep, was brought by the God of peace, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, as the security to us of all power of obedience. (Heb. 13:20.)
6. That, His victory over which, through the grace of God, was the begetting of us to a lively hope. (1 Peter 1:3.)
7. That deliverance from which into glory, was God's claim upon the church for her faith and hope to rest in Himself. (1 Peter 1:21.)
8. The death of Christ, God's sentence, and the believer's plea against the sins of the flesh. (1 Peter 3:18.)
9. The Lord in victory over death the strength of the saint amid the wreck of apostasy. (Rev. 1:5, 18; 2:8.)
10. The leading thought of heaven and its hosts, and their measure of the worthiness of the Lamb. (Rev. 5:6, 9, 12.)
11. Death, the Lord's title in connection with the book of life, and the exoneration of those who worship not the beast. (Rev. 13:8.)