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 cases mentioned in the New Testament, but as would be fitting and proper for the Divine Truth descending into lower planes of life, cast them out en masse, so that mankind would be set at liberty, for his mission was "to preach deliverance to the captives, . . . to set at liberty them that are bruised."

Ascending into heaven and sitting at the right hand of God is, as we have seen, to reign as God; for all power was given unto the Son, so that after the resurrection he said, "All power is given unto me in heaven and on earth," showing conclusively that there was no other being or person who exercised power. Can any one imagine for an instant that by this statement it is meant that the Father voluntarily resigned Himself to a condition of innocuous desuetude?

In Revelation He said: "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending." What does this mean but that Jesus, who was then speaking to John in his gloriﬁed humanity, was claiming that he was Jehovah, the very beginning of life, and also its ultimate on the natural plane, the first and last things of creation? And he ends by calling himself "the Almighty." Could anything be plainer than that Jesus of Nazareth,