Religion
Luke 2:35: Jesus, the stumbling-block and sign
From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 11 (1871)
Jesus, the stumbling-block and sign,
By Thy mysterious death Divine
Thou dost our thoughts explain,
Thine honour'd, or rejected cross.
The veil from every heart withdraws
And shows what is in man.
The man that to himself adheres,
His life he to his God prefers;
But who themselves deny
They only their devotion prove
While daily, to evince their love,
Upon Thy cross they die.
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Wesley, Charles. “Luke 2:35: Jesus, the stumbling-block and sign.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/5030/.
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Wesley, Charles. “Luke 2:35: Jesus, the stumbling-block and sign.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/5030/.
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