Abraham Kuyper — His Decease at Jerusalem: Meditations on the Passion, translated from the Dutch by John Hendrik de Vries (1928). Published in 1928, it is in the public domain in the United States only (the 95-year term ended in 2023); it may still be in copyright elsewhere.
Fifty meditations on the sufferings and death of Christ, from the decease He was to accomplish at Jerusalem, through Gethsemane, the trial, the cross and the burial, to the blood of Abel. The foreword is dated Amsterdam, November 1900.
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Contents (52)
- Foreword
- Translator’s Preface
- 1. Decease Which He Should Accomplish
- 2. Whatsoever Thy Counsel Determined Before
- 3. As a Preparation for My Burial
- 4. The Hand that Dippeth with Me in the Dish
- 5. The Prince of this World Cometh
- 6. All Thy Waves and Thy Billows
- 7. Prayed More Earnestly
- 8. Could Ye not Watch with Me One Hour
- 9. Of the Travail of His Soul
- 10. And Laid Hands on Jesus
- 11. I Adjure Thee by the Living God
- 12. Deny Me Thrice
- 13. Smitings upon the Face
- 14. Afflicted
- 15. Into the Hall of Judgment
- 16. Sent Him to Herod
- 17. Not this Man, but Barabbas
- 18. Behold the Man
- 19. Crucify Him, Crucify Him
- 20. A Crown of Thorns
- 21. As a Lamb Led to the Slaughter
- 22. Weep Not for Me (I.)
- 23. Weep Not for Me (II.)
- 24. As a Sheep before her Shearers is Dumb
- 25. A Worm and No Man
- 26. They Crucified Him
- 27. Jesus the King of the Jews
- 28. The Sacrifice of Himself
- 29. My Garments
- 30. They Know Not What They Do
- 31. With Me in Paradise
- 32. Dried Up like a Potsherd
- 33. I am Poured Out like Water
- 34. My Lonely One
- 35. They that Passed By Reviled Him
- 36. He was Despised
- 37. Wonderfully Come Down
- 38. Woman Behold thy Son
- 39. I Thirst
- 40. All Accomplished
- 41. Eli, Eli, Lama, Sabachthani
- 42. Made to be Sin for Us
- 43. Father, into Thy Hands I Commend My Spirit
- 44. Thou Layest Me in the Dust of Death
- 45. Because He hath Poured Out His Soul unto Death
- 46. Bruise the Head
- 47. And the Earth did Quake
- 48. Ought not Christ to have Suffered all these Things?
- 49. Jesus Made a Surety
- 50. The Blood of Abel