PREFACETHE subject of this book nlust not be extendedbeyond the promise of the title.I t is not an exhaustive treatise on theA tonement or on Justification: it is anexamination of the New Testament teachingon the Death of Christ.That the death of Christ has a place inthe N ev Testament vhich demands for itthe most careful consideration ,vill not bequestioned by anyone j and though theground has often been traversed, in wholeor in part, before, there are reasons whichjustify at the present time such a studyas follows. One is that, so far as thevriter can judge, the death of Christ hasnot the place assigned to it, either inpreaching or in theology, which it has inthe New Testanlent. There have beenconspicuous examples of essays and eventreatises on the Atonement. standing in r.odiscoverable relation to the New Testament.The proportions of average currentChristianity are not those of apostolicChristianity; and if the latter is in anyTable of Contents CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; PAGE; Conception of the New Testament: its unity not; artificial, I; Misused distinctions ~ historical and dogmatic,; biblical and systematic, material and formal, 4; The death of Christ a real subject in the New; Testament, 8; Outline of study, 9; CHAPTER I; THE SYNOPTIC GOSPELS; The mind of Christ and the mind of the evangelists, II; The idea that our Lord's death must have been; foreign to His mind when He entered on His; work, II; Relation to this idea of the narratives of His Baptism; and Temptation, 13; Significance of the Baptism in particular, 18; The first suggestions of our Lord's death and; allusions to it, 22; The taking away oC the Bridegroom (Mark ii 19),; and the sign of Jonah (Mat --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.