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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... relation to the Father and of his mediatorship for all men, has recently been put to the account of a poet who found in it the most wondrous expression for Jesus' sense of his power (Matt. 11. 25 sqq.): Come unto vie, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. To be sure a matchless poet who struck the only proper key in a masterly manner! But where a man speaks in this tone of supremacy he is not in the habit of adding: I am meek and lowly in heart, and if he should do it, we should think it a ridiculous thing and judge it as a weakness of an otherwise great man. The unheard of yet living connection of high selfassurance and silent humility shows us that the picture of Jesus could not have been invented and strengthened belief in the right of his claim. And how little do we see into the depths of his own soul! It must certainly turn out true that none knew the Father as did the Son: for otherwise he could not have revealed the Father and called every heavy laden man unto himself and his peace; but at the same time it remained true: No man knoweth the Son, but the Father. We know him and yet know him not. His inner life and personal communion with the Father were never unfolded before us but only so far quietly revealed that we might understand his mediatorial consciousness: All things are delivered unto me of my Father. How should we feel after a man who spoke thus? We feel ourselves imperfect and needy--he knows himself as the Giver of all gifts. We feel ourselves as members--he knows himself as the head. It is true that his dependence on the Father remained, who delivered unto him all things--but over against all men Jesus stood in an otherwise unprecedented relation of superiority: whoever bowed to him was as...

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