show to the world His justice, hitherto unknown. amongst us on earth as a poor, weak mortal, like to us; but it will appear on that day, when He shall be seen seated on a throne with great power and glory. When He was subject to the judgment of men the world did not know Him; but He shall be known when all men shall have to submit to the sentence He pronounces on them: “The Lord shall be known when He executeth judgments,”[1] when He shall exercise His authority as Judge of the whole human race. Who knew what a great, mighty Lord He was when He was bound in chains and led before the high-priest, and when He stood so humbly before Pilate and Herod? But the day shall come when all mankind assembled in the valley of Josaphat shall shake with fear before His tribunal: " The Lord shall be known when He executeth judgments.” Who saw any trace of an Almighty Godhead in Him when He was condemned to death as a poor sinner amid the jeers and laughter of the Jews, and nailed to the shameful cross? But wait till He pronounces the sentence of condemnation on the judges, kings, and emperors of earth: then “the Lord shall be known when He executeth judgments.” He still abandons Himself, as it were, to the wantonness and contempt of wicked men, as if He were unable to defend Himself or to restrain their malice; but let them fall into His hands on the day of His wrath: then they shall feel whom they have been fighting against, and what a mighty Lord He is whose anger they have provoked. “If,” says the wise Ecclesiastes, “thou shalt see the oppression of the poor, and violent judgments, and justice perverted in the province, wonder not at this matter;” be not surprised at the prosperity of the wicked, the persecutions the just have to suffer, the oppression of poor widows and orphans, the pride and wanton ness of the rich; “for he that is high hath another higher,”[2] who will one day justify His judgments before the whole world, and they who seemed to bear the globe on their shoulders shall have to bow down before Him.
Shown by an example after the manner of a simile. In the History of Greece we read that the hero Agesilaus was small of stature but great in mind and valor, skilled in arms and generalship, and one of the greatest heroes of his time. King Agis had a great desire to see one of whose exploits he had heard so much; but when he met Agesilaus he began to ridicule him, and said in a mocking tone: “I behold an ant, when I
