heological terms and distinctions
had never become necessary.[38] We may be unable to understand how if
Christ were a complete Person before the Incarnation, the humanity He
assumed could also be complete and similar to our own. But
notwithstanding such difficulties, which are the necessary result of our
inability to comprehend the Divine nature, we are convinced, when we
follow Christ through His life and listen to His own assertions, that
there is in Him something unique and unapproached among men, that while
He is one of us He yet looks at us also from the outside, from above. We
feel that He is Master of all, that nothing in nature or in life can
defeat Him; that while dwelling in time, He is also in Eternity, seeing
before and after. The most stupendous claims He makes seem somehow
justified; assertions which in other lips would be blasphemous are felt
to be just and natural in His. It is felt that somehow, even if we
cannot say how, God is in Him.

FOOTNOTES:

[36] Calvin says: "The ancients misinterpreted this passage to prove
that Christ is of one substance with the Father. For Christ is not here
disputing regarding unity of substance, but regarding the harmony of
will (consensu) which he has with the Father, maintaining that whatever
He does will be confirmed by the Father's power."

[37] In this passage I borrow the convincing argument of Treffry in his
too little read treatise _On the Eternal Sonship_. He says, p. 89: "Had
the Jews regarded the Messiah as a Divine person, the claims of Jesus to
that character had been in all cases equivalent to the assertion of His
Deity. But there is not upon record one example in which any
considerable emotion was manifested against these claims; while, on the
other hand, a palpable allusion to His higher nature never failed to be
instantly and most indignantly resented. The conclusion is obvious."

[38] "Utinam quidem sepulta essent" (_Instit._, I., 13, 5).

XXIII.

_JESUS THE RESURRECTION AND LIFE._

"Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, of the village of
Mary and her sister Martha. And it was that Mary which anointed the
Lord with ointment, and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother
Lazarus was sick. The sisters therefore sent unto Him, saying, Lord,
behold, he whom Thou lovest is sick. But when Jesus heard it, He
said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God,
that the Son of God may be glori