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Rh The term "me" therefore ("all power is given unto Me") would refer to the humanity thus glorified—and to which Divinity and consequently omnipotence was now communicated; while the giver of the omnipotence was not God as a distinct being from Jesus, but as dwelling within Him, and thus a part of Himself; for we know He said, "The Father dwelleth within me: I and the Father are one." Under this view, the seeming contradiction contained in the passage disappears; and Jesus is seen to be not only omnipotent, but God, and the one God.

In this connection it may be observed, that, on the same principle as that just presented, all those passages the the Gospels, which seem to represent Jesus as less than God, may be satisfactorily explained. We are to keep in mind, that our Lord, while He stood before men in the streets of Jerusalem, was, so to speak, a compound being—He was both God and man. The nature of that union between Divinity and humanity it is not possible for us fully to comprehend, for the plain reason that the finite mind cannot understand the ways or doings of an Infinite Being. But there is nothing in such a union that contradicts any known law of truth or Divine order, and therefore nothing opposed to right reason, and consequently nothing in itself incredible. And the admission of the existence of such a union is the only possible key to the words or acts of the Saviour, or to the Scripture declarations concerning him; and is the only explanation of numerous passages, which without it are irreconcilable and contradictory, but which, with it, are perfectly intelligible and in harmony. That humanity or human part consisted, we must believe, not merely of a body but also of a 13*