The New Life and the Eternal Life: Notes on the Reiterated Amens of the Sons of God (2nd edition 1882)
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The New Life and the Eternal Life: Notes on the Reiterated Amens of the Sons of God (2nd edition 1882)
Andrew John Jukes (1815– 1901) was an English theologian. He was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was initially a curate in the Church of England at St. John's Church, Hull, but became convinced of Baptist teaching and underwent adult baptism at the George Street Chapel, Hull, on August 31, 1843. After leaving the Church of England, he joined the Plymouth Brethren.Jukes later left the Plymouth Brethren and founded an independent chapel in Hull. Among those influenced by Jukes was Hudson Taylor.
This is a commentary on those twelve sayings of our Lord in S. John's Gospel, which He prefaces with the word 'Amen,' whether singly or repeated. Such as are familiar with the author's former works, entitled Types of Genesis and Law of the Offerings in Leviticus, will be prepared to find in this volume the same remarkable qualities that distinguished them; qualities best described, perhaps, in the beautiful verses on Origen in Lyra Apostolica. For it is with Origen in his strength, it may also be in his weakness, that Mr. Jukes as a theologian shows the strongest affinities, and then with Richard of S. Victor among the mediaeval mystics. The reader need not look for textual criticism or literal exegesis, both of them articles of which the current supply is if anything in excess of the demand; but he will find, as almost nowhere else, profound devotional reflections teeming throughout the whole volume, and often giving unexpected vitality of meaning to passages which have been possibly somewhat overlooked even by pious and intelligent students of Holy Writ
Mr. Jukes holds that the twelve 'Amen' sayings, however dissociated from each other in the sacred text, and however diverse the occasions on which they were severally uttered, really are intimately connected with each other, and designedly form an orderly whole, embodying a progressive course of teaching on the deepest mysteries of the faith. In a brief introductory chapter Mr. Jukes explains his theory of the Amens. The first 'Verily, verily' (S. John L 51) he views as revealing the home of the new man, the opening of the long shut heavens; the second (S. John iii. 3, 5), as showing the only way to this home, through the new birth; the third (S. John v. 19-22) declares the law of this new life of the new man ; the fourth (S. John vi. 26-58) tells us of his meat, the bread which comes down from heaven; the fifth (S. John viii. 31-35) shows what is his special liberty, to be free from sin; the sixth (S. John viii. 48-58) declares his divinity and his right to say 'I am;' the seventh (S. John x. 1-18) describes his service as the Good Shepherd who dies for his sheep; the eighth (S. John xii. 24-26) more fully opens his sacrifice and its results; the ninth (S. John xiii. 1-32) tells of his lowliness and its uses in the cleansing of disciples and the glorifying of God; the tenth (S. John xiv. 8-14) shows his glory and his revelation of God; the eleventh (S. John xvi. 16-25) shows us his sorrow and joy; while the twelfth and last (S. John xxi. 15-23) tells of his perfecting.
From this syllabus some slight notion of the mode of treatment can be gathered, but it would require copious extracts, for which the needful space is not here available, to do adequate justice to Mr. Jukes's manner of handling his subject, which compels admiration from the emotional side of a religious nature, even when the harder intellect is compelled to charge him with being too fancifully tropological in his gloss.
