GEORGE MOORE
69
TIMOTHY: But many times we have preached the man Jesus, in Jericho and in many other towns and cities.
PAUL: We preach the man Jesus and also the everlasting Jesus that has abided in man since the beginning.
tiMOTHY: Then thou deniest not the Galilean, Paul?
PAUL: God forbid that I should deny Jesus of Nazareth was possessed of the Lord Jesus when he preached the kingdom of heaven in Galilee and the worthlessness of this world, for whosoever speaks God's wisdom is possessed of the Lord Jesus, God's messenger, his beloved son, who died for me on the cross and for whom I, too, was crucified, he in me and I in him. (Turning from Timothy to the others.) Brethren, who has come among you to pervert my doctrine, stinting it to a single revelation in Galilee? Is there one among you who doubts that Moses was possessed of the Lord Jesus when he led the Israelites out of Egypt, or Elijah when a fiery chariot carried him heavenward? We are Jews no longer, but Christians, and may believe that Jesus was revealed in Pythagoras, in Socrates, in Plato, and will be revealed again and again in many different manifestations till the end of time, till the last man has perished, and death himself, the last enemy, is subdued. Then, and not till then, will the Lord Jesus be converted nigh to his Father. My brethren, is not this understood among you, or are ye still like John and James and Peter? And thou Timothy? but, alas! no longer in the faith.
TIMOTHY: Forgive me for not knowing, Father, that the truth lies beyond the scars.
apollos: Priscilla and Aquila instructed me so far as they knew, but as themselves will admit after hearing thee to-day, Paul, it was no more than the blind striving to lead the blind.
aQuiLa: We are comforted by thy words, Paul, for they awaken the truth that slept in our hearts.
PRIsCILLA: We knew without knowing that we knew. Thou hast made us clear to ourselves, Paul.
PauL: What question shall I put to thee, Eunice?
EUNICE: Thou hast my answer in thy heart already: Go to Rome and fetch the world to Christ, and glorify thyself, if glory be on earth.
