testing and utterance of our natures and of His own.
And in the redemption of this world there occurred an emergency which
called forth, as nothing else conceivably could call forth, everything
that the Divine and human natures of Christ are capable of.

Another result of Christ's death is mentioned by John: "That the
children of God which were scattered abroad might be gathered together
in one." It was for a unity Christ died, for that which formed one
whole. When Caiaphas sacrificed Christ to propitiate Rome, he knew that
none but Christ's own countrymen would benefit thereby. The Romans would
not recall their legions from Africa or Germany because Judaea had
propitiated them. And supposing that the Jews had received some
immunities and privileges from Rome as an acknowledgment of its favour,
this would affect no other nation. But if any members of other nations
coveted these privileges, their only course would be to become
naturalized Jews, members and subjects of the favoured community. So
Christ's death has the effect of gathering into one all those who seek
God's favour and fatherhood, no matter in what ends of the earth they be
scattered. It was not for separate individuals Christ died, but for a
people, for an indivisible community; and we receive the benefits of His
death no otherwise than as we are members of this people or family. It
is the attractive power of Christ that draws us all to one centre, but
being gathered round Him we should be in spirit and are in fact as close
to one another as to Him.

NOTE ON CHAP. VI., VERS. 37, 44, 45.

Three terms are used in these verses which call for
examination,--"giving," "drawing," "teaching." The two latter are used
in a connection which leaves little room for doubt as to their meaning.
"No man can come to Me, except the Father which hath sent Me draw
him.... It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of
God. Every man, therefore, that hath heard and hath learned of the
Father, cometh unto Me;" but, by implication, no man who has not so
learned. Both verses express the thought that without special aid from
God no man can come to Christ. There must be a Divine illumination of
the human faculties, enabling the man to apprehend that Jesus is the
Christ, and to receive Him as such. These expressions cannot refer to
the outward illumination which is communicated by Scripture, by the
miracles of Christ, and so forth; because the whole of the cro