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 * Therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee
 * With the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
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To this agrees another passage in the same chapter, which refers to the Son as “the brightness of His [God's] glory, and the express [or expressed] image of His person [or individuality].” It is noteworthy that the words express image, in the Common Version, are, in the Greek Testament, character. Using this word in its higher meaning, we may assume that the author of this remarkable epistle thought of Jesus the Christ as the royal reflection of the Infinite; and the motive given for this exaltation is, that the Christ “loved righteousness and hated iniquity.” The spiritual sense of the passage is made even clearer in the scholarly translation of the late Professor George R. Noyes: “Who being a brightness from His glory, and an image of His being.”

Jesus' spiritual origin, and his demonstration of the Divine Principle, richly endowed him, and entitled him to Sonship in Science. God the Father, Jesus the Son, Divine Science the Holy Ghost, — these three titles express the threefold essential nature of the Infinite, as the everlasting scientific being, and they indicate the relation between God and man.

Christian Science draws its support from the Bible, from the holy influence of Truth in healing sickness and sin. This healing power of Truth must have reached behind the period in which Jesus lived. It is as ancient as the Ancient of Days. It lives through all Life, extends through all extent. It spreads, but is undivided. It operates, but is unspent. Jesus' system of healing received no aid or approval from other sanitary or