3810 — How Our Lord Was Crucified
By Editor
What relation to us is the fact that our Lord was crucified between two thieves? Or is it any relation to us? Does it have any bearing in regard to the center of time? S. B. L. The great fact has been used as a symbol of various things. The real point taught in it is that He perished among malefactors. One on each side would show this,—that He died as a criminal, just the same as they, and so He was in the eyes of those who crucified Him. See Isa. 53:12. That, to our minds, is the great point. It has been said that Christ was symbolical of His truth, that His truth is crucified between tradition on the one hand, and infidelity on the other. Sometimes it is said that the holy day of the Sabbath is like our Lord, crucified between two thieves — the pagan first day on the one side and the Mohammedan sixth day on the other. It has nothing whatever to do with the division of time. Our Lord was born about four thousand years after the creation; but the crucifixion, of course, was some time later. It does not profit, really, to pay so much attention to what this scripture may be made to mean, or what that fact may be made to mean, as it does to learn the meaning of just what God has said in His Word concerning our duty.