the radius of the Divinity, and who was always God, for with God, to be and to know are simultaneous.
Q. Was Jesus Christ always man?
A. Jesus Christ was not always man, but became man at the time of His Incarnation.
The Test of the Angels
It is believed that when God created the angels and wished, before admitting them to the everlasting joys of heaven, to test their obedience. He revealed to them the future humanity of His only begotten Son and bade them all fall down and adore. Lucifer and his followers, pure spirits as they were, disdained to worship a soul clothed with a mortal body, and so were cast into hell.
Q. What do you mean by the Incarnation?
A. By the Incarnation I mean that the Son of God was made man.
The Iron and the Wood
A saintly hermit and his disciple, whom he called his son, were building a house for themselves on the bank of a river. Presently, when the young man swung his ax, the head flew from the handle and sank in the stream. The youth cried out in dismay, for the ax was his only tool and was borrowed as well. Then his father, taking a log of wood, cast it into the river, and lo! the wood sank, and in proportion as it went down the iron rose and finally appeared
