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MYTHOLOGY
FIFTH LECTURE.
(B) To proceed to the teaching of the New Testament which is said to be the fulfilcient of the Old Testament, the inost noticeable feature of the Gospels is their parabolic teaching. The“ Key of Knowledge" for the loss of which Jesus found fault with the Lawyers of Israel is also needed to open the hidden sense of the Messianic speech. Here and there we, no doubt, come across real gems of great value lying on the surface, but just be. cause they are loose and unset they are liable to be twisted and forced into any kind of a setting. On the whole, the cardinal doctrine of the Messiah in the New Testament may be taken to be as follows.
(1) Perfection and Divinity of the soul-substance.
(i) " I said, ye are Gods” (John, x. 34). (ii) “Ye are the light of the world. A city that
is set on a bill cannot be hid” (Matt, v.
14). (iii) "Ye are the salt of the earth" (Matt, v, 13). (iv) “Beloved, now we are the sons of God, and
it doth not yet appear what we shall be, but we know thai, when he shali appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as be is” (John's First Epistle General, iii. 2).
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