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he fell from that lofty estate and became wholly evil; and in order to save him and lift him up again into the true order of his being it became necessary for the very Divine to descend into human life and rescue man from himself, to reveal God to man and help him upward. This is a condescension that is predicable only of infinite Love and Wisdom, and yet is in harmony with His benevolent purposes obvious in creatlon.

We have shown previously from the Word of God that Jehovah said that He was so coming into nature, into the natural world, to rescue man. We have shown repeatedly, and we think conclusively, that He was to come in the form of a servant, despised and rejected of men, and yet that He Was to be "the mighty God, the everlasting Father." And we have seen that Jesus could have been no other than God in the flesh. "In the beginning was the Word," or Logos, or Expression of God—existing from the beginning of all things—"and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. . . And the Word (or God) was made flesh." This Word is the Divine Truth, the form of the Divine Good, always existent, corresponding, in the