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Christ’s Answer Respecting Tribute

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 9, 1869

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 33, No. 11.

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Christ’s Answer Respecting Tribute.

By John Nevins Andrews

DR. LARDNER in his Credibility of the Gospel History, Vol. 1, p. 107, quotes from Dr. Lightfoot the following statement:
“Christ answers the treachery of the question propounded [upon the tribute money] out of the very determinations of the schools, where this was taught: ‘Whereesoever the money of any king is current there the inhabitants acknowledge that king for their lord.’”
Thus it appears that our Lord answered the crafty men who sought to ensnare him, by giving them in substance the decision of their own doctors on this point. They sought to involve him in difficulty with his own nation if he, the promised Messiah, bade them to pay tribute; and they would at once have delivered him to the governor had he said No. His answer caused them to retire in confusion. J. N. A.