Charles Hodge Quotes

“To deny, therefore, that the faith of the Old Testament saints was a faith in the Messiah and his redemption, is to deny that they had any knowledge of the import of the revelations and promises of which they were the recipients.”

“His perfections are revealed to us as the highest knowledge; they are all pledged for our protection, blessedness, and glory.”

“In order to prove that there is a covenant between the Father and the Son, formed in eternity, and revealed in time, it is not necessary that we should adduce passages of the Scriptures in which this truth is expressly asserted.”

“The Father did give the Son a work to do, and He did promise to Him a reward upon its accomplishment.”

“Satan was the strong man armed whom Christ came to dispossess and to deliver from him those who were led captive by him at his will.”

“It is no less clear that the Redeemer is the same under all dispensations.”

“The Son of God was thus to see of the travail of his soul and be satisfied.”

“For unmerited love; i. e., love exercised towards the undeserving.”

“By fulfilling the conditions on which the promises of the covenant of redemption were suspended, the veracity and justice of God are pledged to secure the salvation of his people; and this secures the fidelity of his people.”

“To this end special revelations were made to them, and God entered into a covenant with them, promising that He would be their God, and that they should be his people.”

“Immediately after the fall God gave to Adam the promise of redemption.”

“An obligation was assumed by the Son to accomplish the work assigned Him; and an obligation was assumed by the Father to grant Him the stipulated reward.”

“But it was Christ, and Christ alone, who came into the world to destroy the works of the Devil.”

“The Apostle in Heb. 11. teaches that the hopes of the patriarchs were not confined to the present life, but were fixed on a future state of existence.”

“The gospel, however, is the offer of salvation upon the conditions of the covenant of grace. in this sense, the covenant of grace is formed with all mankind.”

“There is not a doctrine concerning Christ, taught in the New Testament, which the Apostles do not affirm to have been revealed under former dispensations.”

“It was not mere faith or trust in God, or simply piety, which was required, but faith in the promised Redeemer, or faith in the promise of redemption through the Messiah.”

“The Epistle to the Hebrews is designed in great part to show that the whole of the Old dispensation was an adumbration of the New, and that it loses all its value and import if its reference to Christ be ignored.”

“From the various orders of rational creatures He has chosen man to be the special object of his favour, and the special medium through which and by which to manifest his glory.”

“The Father may send the Son, may give Him a work to do, and promise Him a recompense.”

“They were chosen in order to preserve the knowledge of the true religion in the midst of the general apostasy of mankind.”