The Development of Sin

Sin develops. It does so in the history of the church of the Old Testament Dispensation. The Jewish nation (with the exception of the elect remnant) was harden­ed by the word and the law. By the law the hatred of things holy that lurked in the bosom of the serpent brood was awakened and so> intensified that when Christ finally appeared, the Jewish nation as a whole was capable of crucifying Him. Sin developed in the children of dis­obedience. When the monster sin in the generation of the carnal...