The ‘Day’ of Judgement is ‘that day of wrath'

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The ‘Day’ of Judgement is ‘that day of wrath'

If there is any thought //at which a Christian trembles it is the thought of God’s ‘judgement’. 

The ‘Day’ of Judgement is ‘that day of wrath, that dreadful day’. 

We pray for God to deliver us ‘in the hour of death and at the day of judgement’. 

Christian art and literature for centuries have depicted its terrors. 

This note in Christianity certainly goes back /to the teaching of Our Lord Himself;

especially to the terrible parable of the Sheep and the Goats. 

This can leave [no conscience] [untouched],

for in it the ‘Goats’ are condemned entirely for their sins of omission;

as if to make us fairly sure that the heaviest charge against each of us turns /not upon the things ()  he has done

but on those () he never did—perhaps dreamed /of doing.

* 5 형식,  leave [no conscience] [untouched], make us fairly sure that~ 목적이 목보되게 동사하다 

It was therefore with great surprise [that I first noticed how the Psalmists talk about the judgement of God]. 

Judgement is apparently an occasion of universal rejoicing. 

People ask for it: ‘Judge me, O Lord my God, according to thy righteousness’ (35:24)

* 강조구문 It was therefore (with great surprise) /that I first noticed [how the Psalmists talk about the judgement of God]. 

The reason for this soon becomes very plain. 

The ancient Jews, like ourselves, think /of God’s judgement /in terms of an earthly court of justice. 

The difference is that the Christian pictures the case to be tried as a criminal case with himself in the dock;

the Jew pictures it /as a civil case with himself as the plaintiff. 

The one hopes for acquittal, or rather for pardon; the other hopes for a resounding triumph /with heavy damages.

* dock, noun : the place in a criminal court where a prisoner stands or sits during trial 피고인 석

* 믿음으로 하나님의 의롭다 하심을 받아 하나님의 의를 소유한 신자는

시편기자처럼 자신있게 하나님의 의로 저를 재판해 주십시요 할 수 있다


From Reflections on the Psalms

Reflections on the Psalms. Copyright © 1958 by C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. Copyright renewed © 1968 by Arthur Owen Barfield. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers.