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 spiritually minded, is he more than an angel? Obviously not.

Yet we know that he does become an angel in the hereafter from the Book of Revelation, where John falls down at the feet of the angel who had been showing him the glories of the New Jerusalem, and we hear these words: "See thou do it not; for I am thy fellow-servant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book." From this we deduce that angels are regenerated men. But he never becomes more than an angel, and thus always remains a finite being.

But we find that Jesus is called the Son of God from the beginning, and finally has all power lodged in his hands, as we read in Matthew 28:18. He is thus the Son of God in a special sense from his birth, and in the end announces himself as one with the Father, and finally as the Father. (John 10:30 and John 14:17—10.) His case is unique and wholly different in many respects from our own. He not only becomes like the Father, but eventually proclaims his identity with the Father.

The human being, with a purely human soul, becomes only a replica of its own father morally