The
German proverb, "To understand a man rightly, one must read his whole story," gives a semblance of reason to the growing tendency to record the facts of human history in the form of biography.
In
a masterly exhortation to righteousness, Paul calls upon the Christians at Ephesus, in recognition of God's bestowals, to speak to themselves "in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,.
The
redeeming, restoring ministry of Christ Jesus, his winsome character, all that he expressed, pointed to God, divine Love, as the one good-bestowing and all-enfolding spiritual cause.
While
Jesus may not have been the first to conceive of God as Father, it is certain that he was more conscious of the fact of God's fatherhood than any who had preceded him.
