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 who was to bruise the serpent's head, the heir of Abraham and David, the "servant" told about in the later prophets, was the man of Nazareth, the son of Mary, the one who, because of this assumption of a limited human covering, with its planes of life, was tempted in all points like as we are. We would perceive how this outward expression in time and space could grow tired as other men, and be tempted, whereas the eternal God is never weary and cannot be tempted of evil. We would perceive the steps by which this "servant" overcame, on their own plane, the hosts of evil who were in this way admitted into combats with him, and how he at last rescued man from their power and holds man in such a state of balance between good and evil forever that men can of themselves freely choose the good and reject the evil. It would be interesting and profitable, as we have said, to do this and many other things relating to our subject; but they are not pertinent to show who Jesus of Nazareth was in himself.

This explanation of him that we have offered would show why God in the Old Testament is sometimes spoken of as Jehovah (often