Well, it's Friday again and this is the last edition of Things Unseen for the Week.

I hope you've been helped through the work week and I also hope that perhaps you've

enjoyed our theme this week when we've been focusing attention on the character of the

Lord Jesus and asking the question, what's Jesus really like?

Yesterday in passing I mentioned an article entitled The Emotional Life of Our Lord. It

was written by the great American Theologian Benjamin B. Warfield and I think was first

published in a book of essays that celebrated the centenary of Princeton Seminary.

Warfield's works were published a century ago by Oxford University Press in ten wonderful

volumes but this essay wasn't included so I think by and large it fell out of view.

But we're not in product placement here on Things Unseen but some of you want to know

that it was republished some time ago by Crossway and I warmly recommend it to you.

Well in his essay Warfield points out the emotion that's most frequently attributed

to Jesus.

Wonder if you can guess what it was?

Yes, it's compassion grounded in love and I imagine many of us might be able to guess

that.

But then Warfield singles out an element in Jesus' emotional makeup that I suspect we

don't think about nearly as often, anger and indignation.

It occurs early in Mark's Gospel, Jesus is angry with the Pharisees because of their

lack of compassion for a man with a withered hand.

Later on he's indignant about the way his own disciples are hindering little children

and infants from being brought to him for his blessing.

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