[123] Ezekiel xxxi. 8.
[124] “A God understood would be no God at all.”—Dean Mansel, seventeenth century.
[125] Metaphysics, xii.
[126] Physical Religion, p. 4.
[127] Cf. Summum jus est summa injuria.
[128] This study of religions hardly gives sufficient prominence to Christianity; Max Müller says: “I make no secret that true Christianity, I mean the religion of Christ, seems to me to become more and more exalted the more we know and the more we appreciate the treasures of truth hidden in the despised religions of the world.”—Introduction to the Science of Religion, p. 28.
“It may be said that my chief object has been to magnify Christianity, by showing that it is the fulfilment of all that the world has been hoping and striving for. In one sense that is true. But if I hold that Christianity has given the best and truest expression to what the old world had tried to express in various and less perfect ways, I have at least given the facts on which I rely.”—Anthropological Religion, p. 388.
[129] On this subject Max Müller says: “The ancient Fathers of the Church spoke on these subjects with greater freedom than we venture to use in these days.”—Chips from a German Workshop, vol. i., Pref. xxix.
[130] Chips from a German Workshop, vol. i., Pref. xxix.
[131] In the seventh century the Personality was clearly set forth in the Athanasian Creed.