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 David; as a servant who would be despised and rejected by those to whom He came; that His coming would be heralded by a messenger in the spirit and power of Elijah.

And we are confronted by the fact of Jesus himself. What shall we do with Jesus that is called Christ? Shall we also reject him and cast him out? Has the world gotten rid of him by rejecting him and casting him out?

Jesus not only insisted that he was the fulfilment of all the prophecies concerning the Messiah, but he lived a life which we have already seen is universally admitted to be the most perfect life ever lived upon this earth, and his teachings are the supremest expressions of spiritual truth ever uttered. If God could manifest Himself as a human being, it is certain that Jesus perfectly fulfilled our ideal of what God in the ﬂesh would be.

We recall that Jehovah said,"I am Jehovah thy God . . ., and thou shalt acknowledge no God beside me." (Hos. 13:4.) Jehovah said also in the passage we were quoting, "And there is no Saviour beside me." And yet Jesus allowed Thomas to call him, "My Lord and my God." (John 20:28.) The angel announced