Article April 1, 1916 Issue

Jesus the Christ

JUDGE SEPTIMUS J. HANNA

What an infinity of meaning the words Jesus the Christ embrace! The prophecies of the Old Testament center in the spiritual truth of which he was the individual exponent and the chief earthly representative. These prophecies begin with Genesis and run through the writings of the prophets down to and including Malachi, constituting the very warp and woof of the prophetic books.

Some of these prophecies are direct and literal; others are figurative and more or less obscure, that is in the letter, but spiritually discerned they are wondrously illuminative. An understanding of them establishes in consciousness that assured sense of the nature, character, and office of Jesus the Christ without which we cannot know God. It is not too much to say, moreover, that we can know the eternal Christ only as we study, understand, and apply the teachings of the Master. We must learn first of his humanity, and through the understanding of his humanity, come into the understanding of his divinity. On page 54 of Science and Health Mrs. Eddy says: "Through the magnitude of his human life, he demonstrated the divine Life. Out of the amplitude of his pure affection, be defined Love. With the affluence of Truth, he vanquished error. The world acknowledged not his righteousness, seeing it not; but earth received the harmony his glorified example introduced."

The fact that "God was manifest" to humanity through Christ Jesus, as St. Paul tells us in his first epistle to Timothy, establishes at once his humanity and his divinity. This corelation constitutes his full individuality. This duality of his nature and character is that which distinguishes him from all others and places him, as the Scriptures declare, "far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come."

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