tois archaiois] must properly be translated); “but I say unto you.”  Again, Jesus assumes in the same discourse to be the Object of worship and the Judge of quick and dead, and that His recognition is salvation itself, when He says, “Not every one that saith unto Me Lord, Lord, shall enter,” &c.  “Many shall say to me in that day, Lord, Lord,” &c., “then will I profess unto them, I never knew you, depart from me all ye that work iniquity.”

Take the following expressions out of a number of similar ones in St. Matthew:—­

    “I will make you (ignorant fishermen) fishers of men” (implying, I
    will give you power over souls such as no philosopher or leader of
    men has had before you). (iv. 21.)

    “Blessed are ye when men shall persecute you for My sake.” (v. 11.)

    “If they have called the master of the house (i.e. Jesus)
    Beelzebub, how much wore shall they call them of His household.” (x.
    25.)

    “He that loveth father or mother more than Me is not worthy of me”
    (so that the holiest of human ties are to give way to His personal
    demands on the human heart). (x. 37.)

    “He that loseth his life for My sake shall find it.” (x. 39)

    “No man knoweth the Son, but the Father.” (xi. 27.)

    “In this place is One greater than the temple.” (xii. 6.)

    “The Son of man is Lord even of the Sabbath Day.” (xii. 8.)

    “In His (Christ’s) Name shall the Gentiles trust.” (xii. 21.)

    “In the time of harvest I will say to the reapers,” i.e. the
    angels. (xiii. 30.)

    “The Son of man shall send forth his angels.” (xiii. 41.)

    “I will give unto Thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven.” (xvi.
    19.)

    “Where two or three are gathered together in My Name there am I in
    the midst of them.” (xviii. 21.)

    “He, [God], sent His servants—­He sent other servants—­Last of all
    He sent unto them His Son, saying, they will reverence My Son.”
    (xxi. 37.)

These places assert, by implication, the highest dogma respecting the Person of Christ.  Who is He Who has such power in heaven and earth that He commands the angels in heaven, and gives the keys of the kingdom of God to His servant on earth?  What Son is this Whom none but the Father knoweth, and Who alone knoweth the Father, and Who reveals the Father to whomsoever He will?  What Son is this compared with Whom such saints as Moses, David, Elijah, Isaiah, and Daniel are “servants?” Those dogmatic assertions of the first Gospel suggest the question; and the Fourth Gospel gives the full and perfect answer—­that He is the Word with God, that He is God, and the Only-begotten of the Father.  The Epistles assume the answer where one speaks of “Jesus, who, being in the form of God, thought it not a thing to be tenaciously grasped to be equal with God,” and another speaks