Christ Still Rejected
Bp. Huntington, D. D. John 1:10-11 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.… As John writes, there was an advent and a rejection: a bodily advent, a bodily crucifixion: the image and outer form of the Word that was from the beginning, the ever-living Emmanuel, the Christ that comes to-day. If He is rejected to-day, it is by the pride and fashion and self-indulgence of to-day. It is our compromising consciences, it is our well-dressed sensuality, it is our commercial cunning, it is more literary conceit, it is our making merchandise of men and of men's virtue, our covering up cruelty, and calling it patriotism; dishonesty, and calling it regular trade; hollowness and mutual flattery, and calling it good society; prayerless self-idolatry, and calling it a rational religion — it is these things that prepare and build His cross, and crucify Him afresh. (Bp. Huntington, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. WEB: He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world didn't recognize him.