The following review was written by Wm. Hendriksen on the books The Amazing Cross (1943) and The Royal Sufferer (1945) by Herman Hoeksema. Both of these books have recently been republished in the Lenten anthology When I Survey... (Jenison, MI: Reformed Free Publishing, 2025). This brief review was originally published in the September 21, 1945 edition of The Banner.
Rejected of Men
“Who did not know Jesus of Nazareth? Throughout the land his fame was spread abroad. His name was on the lips of high and low, of rich and poor, of the common people and of those that sat in high places.
But he was despised of men. He was considered a worthless fellow, a good for nothing, who was not fit to live in decent and civilized society. No one would offer him a place in the world, or furnish him with a recommendation.”
Rejected of Men is the third part of Rev. Herman Hoeksema’s Lenten anthology, 'When I Survey.' This book lays out the sufferings of Jesus Christ at the hands of sinners. He became a stranger to his brethren, and he was reproached by the ungodly, cast out by his own, and even denied by his disciples.
The Son of God bore innumerable reproaches at the hands of men in order that we might have life with him.
Through death, He [Christ] passed into the glory of His resurrection, and of His exaltation...
