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Rh send after his departure, but which could not be sent before. "It is expedient for you," said He to his disciples, "that I go away: For if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you." And again: "When the Comforter is come whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me." "He will reprove the world of sin and of righteousness and of judgment." "He will guide you into all truth." And still more conclusive in John vii. 39, "For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because that Jesus was not yet glorified;" a declaration showing that the procession of that divine-human sphere or effluence called the Holy Spirit, was a consequence of the assumption and glorification of the humanity.

The Lord Jesus Christ, therefore, is the infinite God brought down to our finite comprehension and accommodated to our human needs. The Divine Trinity expressed in Scripture by Father, Son and Holy Spirit, is all in Him. This is the teaching of the New Theology, as it clearly is that of the great Apostle to the Gentiles.

But although the fulness of the Divinity dwells in Jesus Christ, yet as to the human side of his nature He can be approached, comprehended and