approximation to this state of being that made him the

Christ-Jesus, the Godlike, the anointed.

The prophet whose words we have chosen for our

text, prophesied the appearing of this dual nature, as [15]

both human and divinely endowed, the personal and the

impersonal Jesus.

The only record of our Master as a public benefactor,

or personal Saviour, opens when he was thirty years of

age; owing in part, perhaps, to the Jewish law that none [20]

should teach or preach in public under that age. Also,