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 Let our inmost love be devoted to Him. Does He exercise authority over us? It must be for our good; let us be obedient unto it. Does His truth control our intellect, bid us exercise our powers for use, direct us in our various employments? If the Lord commands, let our affections say to all our subordinate powers, "Whatsoever he commandeth you to do, do it"

HIS passage has been laid hold of as a proof that the Lord Jesus Christ is not divine. To be divine, it is contended he should be omnipotent; and if omnipotent, though he might have refused the request, he yet had the power, if he chose, to grant it. This grievous error, it cannot be doubted, has orginated in the additional words interpolated by the translators:—"To sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give, but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of my Father." The words, it shall be given to them, are not in the original, and the proper rendering of the text is as follows:—"To sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give, but (or except) to them for whom it is prepared of my Father." Now, who can fail to observe the true meaning of the words, when thus faithfully rendered from the original? It is as though the Lord had said, "Although I possess the power of omnipotence, I