shall see that this title is given Him both in the Old Testament ¹ and in the New. Yet from His own words we learn that He is one with His Father,² that He is in His Father and the Father in Him ³ and that God is One.⁴ All this has been proved in the verses which we have quoted in section i of this chapter.

We now proceed to show what testimony His disciples in their writings have borne to the Deity of the Lord Jesus Christ. If we were to do this at full length, we should have to transcribe nearly the whole of the New Testament. Here, therefore, we must content ourselves with a few verses, in order to show how distinct their evidence is, and how thoroughly it agrees with what the Lord Jesus Christ Himself said on the same subject.

1. In the first place the Apostles of Christ ascribe to Him divine attributes which, as being divine, can belong to no creature. Thus St. John says that the Word of God existed from eternity with His Father, and is therefore eternal. 'In ⁵ the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God.' And elsewhere he says: 'That ⁶ which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we beheld, and our hands handled, concerning the Word of life (and the

life was manifested, and we have seen, and bear witness, and declare unto you the life, the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us); that which we have seen and heard declare we unto you also, that ye also may have fellowship with us: yea, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus ¹ Christ.' It is clear that these verses contain certain other divine titles which are ascribed to the Lord Jesus, but they also prove the point upon which we are now dwelling.

St. John also says that Christ has life in Himself: 'In ² him was life ³; and the life was the light of men.'

Peter bears witness to the fact that Christ Jesus is the only Saviour of mankind: 'And ⁴ in none other is there salvation; for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, wherein we must be ⁵ saved.'

Several of the Apostles testify to the fact that the Lord Jesus Christ knew men's thoughts. No one can deny that this is a divine attribute, and that none but God is the 'Knower of Hearts' (عارف القلوب). Thus it is written in the holy Scriptures that king Solomon, when dedicating the temple at Jerusalem, in his prayer to God, said: