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 unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein." (Isa. 42:5.)

We ﬁnd it written concerning Jesus in the New Testament: "In the beginning was the Word [logos, expression of God] and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. . . All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made. . . In him was life [self-existent life], and the life was the light of men. . . He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. . . And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us." (John 1:1, 3, 4, 10, 14.)

Now if Jehovah was not Jesus, the same identical being manifested to the world as a human being, then this statement from the Gospel of John is not true; but we have as much reason to accept it as true as any other statement of the Bible. Being true, it would appear that the infinite and indivisible Jehovah expressed Himself in a concrete and apprehensible form as Jesus, but that this expression was God Himself, the creator of all things. This expression of God, or Word,—Jesus,—is God, and is the creator "that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth