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Subsections
Desertion of Christ
Christ was Crucified on Friday, 15th of Nisan
What Hour was Christ Crucified?
Atonement
Did Christ’s Person Die?
Hypostatic Union in Death
“He Descended into Hell”
Reformed vs. Aquinas
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Order of Contents
Best 3
Articles 8+
Books 5
Quotes 3
Latin 2
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Best
Books
1800’s
Martin, Hugh – The Shadow of Calvary: The Arrest & Trial of Jesus in Light of the Fulfillment of the Scriptures Buy
Martin (1821-1885) was a minister in the Free Church of Scotland.
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1900’s
Schilder, Klass – Christ in his Suffering, Christ on Trial & Christ Crucified, 3 vols. Buy (1938)
“When Dr. Klass Schilder’s ‘Lenten trilogy’ first made its appearance in English [translated from the Dutch], it was immediately welcomed by evangelicals… as a work of outstanding merit. In fact, it was found to be without equal in modern literature.” – Cyril J. Barber
Krummacher, Frederick W. – The Suffering Savior: Meditations on the Last Days of Christ (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1947) 440 pp. ToC
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Articles
See also, ‘The Passion, Death, Resurrection & Ascension of Christ’ and ‘Commentaries on the Apostles’ Creed’ on ‘Suffered under Pontius Pilate; was crucified, dead’.
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1500’s
Vermigli, Peter Martyr – ’A Sermon of Christ’s Death out of the Second Chapter of Saint Paul to the Philippians’ appended to The Common Places… (London: Henrie Denham et al., 1583), Discourses, pp. 1-9
Olevian, Caspar – An Exposition of the Apostle’s Creed (London, 1581), pt. 2
‘Suffered under Pontius Pilate’
Testimonies out of the prophets, apostles, whereby it is showed that Christ must not die by tumult but must suffer under a judge: and that when a strange magistrate should exercise judgement
Why Christ must be condemned by a judge before the judgment seat?
Why Christ by the mouth of the judge was condemned as an evil doer and by the same judge’s mouth was pronounced innocent
Testimonies out of the prophets and apostles
Why Christ must rather be crucified than suffer any other kind of death
That Christ was truly and indeed made a curse for us, neither yet for all that is there any contumely or reproach offered unto Him by us for so saying
Testimonies out of the prophets and apostles
Why Christ died
Of the fruits, whereof we are made partakers by the death of Christ
Of the second fruit of the death of Christ
Olevian (1536–1587) was a significant German reformed theologian, and has been said to be a co-author of the Heidelberg Catechism along with Zacharias Ursinus (though this has been questioned).
Ursinus, Zachary – The Sum of Christian Religion: Delivered… in his Lectures upon the Catechism… tr. Henrie Parrie (Oxford, 1587)
1. What Christ Suffered
2. According to which nature Christ suffered
3. The causes impellent, or motives of Christ’s Passion
4. The final causes or ends of his Passion
Suffered under Pontius Pilate
Crucified
Dead
1. How Christ is said to have been Dead
2. Whether it was requisite and necessary that Christ should die
3. The fruit of Christ’s death
Beza, Theodore, Anthony Faius & Students – 43. ‘Of the Passion & Death of our Lord Jesus’ in Propositions & Principles of Divinity Propounded & Disputed in the University of Geneva by Certain Students of Divinity there, under Mr. Theodore Beza & Mr. Anthony Faius… (Edinburgh: Waldegrave, 1591), pp. 111-15
Perkins, William – An Exposition of the Symbol, or Apostles’ Creed… (Cambridge, 1595)
Christ’s Passion 176
Christ’s Arraignment 182
Christ’s Execution 226
Christ’s Triumph [on the Cross] 270
Perkins (d. 1602) was an influential, puritan, Anglican clergyman and Cambridge theologian.
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1600’s
Bucanus, William – 23. ‘Of the Passion & Death of Christ’ in Institutions of Christian Religion... (London: Snowdon, 1606), pp. 224
What understand you by this term of the ‘passion’ of Christ?
What is the Lord’s passion or suffering?
What are the efficient causes of Christ’s passion?
What is the subject of this passion?
But whether was the passion a suffering of his whole person, or of one of his natures only?
What was the formal cause?
What was the suffering of his soul?
But what was the cause of such torments in Christ’s soul?
What was the suffering of the body?
What did He suffer in the garden?
But why would Christ (who is the second Adam) be taken in the garden?
What did he suffer in Caiphas’s house, or in the assembly of priests?
What suffered He in the hall?
What did he suffer without the hall?
At what time was He crucified?
As the soul of Christ was separated from his body for the space of three days, was the Godhead likewise separated from them both, or was the Godhead joined with the soul and severed from the body?
But how could it be that the divine nature should continue united to the soul which was in Paradise and the body which was in the earth?
Whether was Christ being now dead, true man?
Who therefore died, and what were the adjuncts of his death?
What was the end of Christ’s death and passion?
Unto whom is the death and passion of Christ profitable?
Whereupon depends the dignity and efficacy of Christ’s death?
How can that prayer of Christ, which He thrice repeated, Mt. 26:39, stand with this obedience, ‘O my Father, if it be possible let this cup pass from Me, yet not as I will but as Thou wilt’?
What effects then, or what fruits be there of the Lord’s passion?
How is the passion of Christ applied unto us?
What opinions are against the sacrifice and passion of Christ?
Hacket, John – ‘Five Sermons upon the Passion’ in A Century of Sermons upon Several Remarkable Subjects (1675) Westminster divine
Flavel, John
The Fountain of Life in Works, vol. 1
‘The Excellency of the Subject [of Christ & Him Crucified]’ 32-42 on 1 Cor. 2:2
‘The Signal Providence which Directed & Ordered the Title Affixed to the Cross of Christ’ 333-43 on Lk. 23:38
The 5th Meditation, on Jn. 1:29 in Sacramental Meditations upon Diverse Select Places of Scripture in Works 6.410-17 on Admiration due to Christ
van Mastricht, Peter – ch. 12, ‘The Death of the Mediator’ in Theoretical Practical Theology (2nd ed. 1698; RHB), vol. 4, pt. 1, bk. 5, pp. 395-53
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Books
1600’s
Herle, Charles – Contemplations & Devotions on the Several Passages of our Blessed Savior’s Death & Passion (1631)
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1800’s
Innes, A. Taylor – The Trial of Jesus Christ: a Legal Monograph Buy (1899) 144 pp. Reprinted by Klock & Klock
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1900’s
Stalker, James – The Trial & Death of Jesus Christ: a Devotional History of our Lord’s Passion (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1910) 325 pp. ToC
Hoeksema, Herman – “And Jesus in the Midst…” A Series of Sermons on the Passion of our Lord Buy (1948) 118 pp.
Schwertley, Brian – The Heart of the Gospel: Gethsemane to the Burial of Christ (2007) 553 pp.
“The last hours of the Savior’s life form late Thursday evening to around 3:00 pm on Friday afternoon contain the most significant events in all human history.” – The back-flap
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Quotes
1800’s
John ‘Rabbi’ Duncan
“Among all deaths there is no death like one death; there are the deaths of sinners; this one death is the death of the Lord of glory.”
“The body of Christ was not separated from the Godhead. The soul of Christ was not separated from the Godhead.”
“Jesus is the Living One. He hath life in Himself underived. He is the well-spring of all derived life. Life is natural, essentially natural to Him. Even in death He lived.”
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Latin Articles
1600’s
Voet, Gisbert
Syllabus of Theological Problems (Utrecht, 1643), pt. 1, section 2, tract 2 Abbr.
Of Just Before the Passion, & of the Agony of Christ
Of the Prayer in Agony
Select Theological Disputations (Utrecht: Waesberg, 1655), vol. 2
9. ‘Of the Agony & Desertion of Christ, Lk. 22:41-45; Mt. 27:46’, pp. 164-72
10. ‘Of the Same, Appendix on Sweating Blood’, pp. 172-88
12. ‘Of the Piercing of the Side of Christ, Jn. 19:34-37’, pp. 195-218
13. ‘Of the Same, an Addition on the Piercing of the Side of Christ’, pp. 218-28
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Related Pages
On Christ’s Humiliation & Exaltation
Christ was in the Grave from Friday Evening to Sunday Morning
On the Burial of Christ & his Time in the Tomb