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 God in the flesh in a special manner, let us read what soon follows:

"For as the Father hath life in himself"—"Life in himself" is self-existent life predicable only of the Inﬁnite God—ordinary men possess derived life only,—"So hath he given to the Son to have life in himself!" Why? In order that all men may see that he is the one and only God. In other words, since there is only one Self-existent life, does this not mean that the Son and the Father, as body and soul, are one identical being, and that the Son, as the special expression of God, must receive the honor and homage we pay to the Father, for he is the Father?

"And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man." (A. V., v. 27.)

What does this mean but that the "Son" is God working in the ultimates of life—on the plane in which we are living?

Jesus, moreover, says:

"Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth." (v. 28.)

Is not this God speaking? And did He not raise the dead to life in this world, and does He