When we truly have good intentions toward someone, we usually say: Oh, if only you could look into my heart! See! So that we now might look into Christ’s heart, He has by means of this wound in His side allowed, as it were, a little door to be made. Moreover, by allowing this wound to be opened, Christ intended that we in true faith might hide ourselves from the wrath of God, as has been so beautifully stated in SSo. 2, where the Lord Christ speaks to His spiritual Bride, the Church: Get up, My lady friend, My beautiful one, and come here, My dove, into the rock holes, into the stonecrevices. This lady friend of Christ, this dove, is the true Church and each individual believing soul. He graciously beckons them to Himself and desires that they should hide themselves in the rock holes and stone crevices. This Rock and this Stone is the Lord Christ, Mat. 16, Isa. 8. The holes in this Rock are His holy wounds on His hands and feet; the crevice of this Stone is the wound in His side. In it a devoted soul should hide itself in true faith.
An Explanation of the History of the Suffering and Death of our Lord Jesus Christ
by Johann Gerhard
page 301
1998 by Elmer Hohle, Published by Repristination Press in 1999
Used with permission.
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When we truly have good intentions toward someone, we usually say: Oh, if only you could look into my heart! See! So that we now might look into Christ’s heart, He has by means of this wound in His side allowed, as it were, a little door to be made. Moreover, by allowing this wound to be opened, Christ intended that we in true faith might hide ourselves from the wrath of God, as has been so beautifully stated in SSo. 2, where the Lord Christ speaks to His spiritual Bride, the Church: Get up, My lady friend, My beautiful one, and come here, My dove, into the rock holes, into the stonecrevices. This lady friend of Christ, this dove, is the true Church and each individual believing soul. He graciously beckons them to Himself and desires that they should hide themselves in the rock holes and stone crevices. This Rock and this Stone is the Lord Christ, Mat. 16, Isa. 8. The holes in this Rock are His holy wounds on His hands and feet; the crevice of this Stone is the wound in His side. In it a devoted soul should hide itself in true faith.
An Explanation of the History of the Suffering and Death of our Lord Jesus Christ
by Johann Gerhard
page 301
1998 by Elmer Hohle, Published by Repristination Press in 1999
Used with permission.
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