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Rh in Science. He was the son of a virgin. The term Christ Jesus, or Jesus the Christ (to give the full and

proper translation of the Greek), may be rendered “Jesus the anointed,” Jesus the God-crowned or the divinely royal man, as it is said of him in the first chapter of Hebrews: —

With this agrees another passage in the same chapter, which refers to the Son as “the brightness of His [God's] glory, and the express [expressed] image of His person [infinite Mind].” It is noteworthy that the phrase “express image” in the Common Version is, in the Greek Testament, character. Using this word in its higher meaning, we may assume that the author of this remarkable epistle regarded Christ as the Son of God, the royal reflection of the infinite; and the cause given for the exaltation of Jesus, Mary's son, was that he “loved righteousness and hated iniquity.” The passage is made even clearer in the translation of the late George R. Noyes, D.D.: “Who, being a brightness from His glory, and an image of His being.”

Jesus of Nazareth was the most scientific man that ever trod the globe. He plunged beneath the material

surface of things, and found the spiritual cause. To accommodate himself to immature ideas of spiritual power, — for spirituality was possessed only in a limited degree even by his disciples, — Jesus called the body, which by spiritual power he raised from the grave, “flesh and bones.” To show that the substance of himself was Spirit and the body