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THE KEY OF KNOWLEDGE.
touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven" -
who can doubt the efficacy of such a spiritual union of the participants, when all the most powerful psychic forces of both the husband and wife are directed towards one common end, when they both work in one direction, with one mind, for the realization of their most closely connected, and inseparably fused and united, interests ? It is in respect of such marriages that one unhesitatingly thinks, ‘marriages are made in heaven ; those whom God has joined let no man put asunder' (Mark, X. 9).
To revert from this lengthy digression, if the only begotten' Son of God had come down from heaven, he would have declared at once what he meant by a ‘rising from the dead,' and not left the matter enshrouded in mystery for even a single moment. Assuming, for the sake of argument, that Jesus was a real Son of God, we can easily imagine what would have been the most natural course of conduct for him. He had come down for at least three distinct purposes, namely,
(1) to reveal the glory of the Father to mankind, (2) to redeem humanity from sin, and
(3) to establish his claim to Sonship of God by rising from the dead.
His most obvious procedure would be to tell mankind his position in as plain a language as possible. If people failed to understand him, it was not their fault; it was failure on the part of the Son of God to express himself. If the Son of God fails to make people understand him, there is an end of the matter ; for there is a distinct confession of weakness, which is hardly in
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