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pendent of a human father, is no infringement and reversal of order; it is simply the old, eternal order, brought into relation to the developing needs of men. The Power of the Highest immediately overshadowing the virgin, the holy thing born of her is in very fact the only begotten Son of God. Divine within and human without. The Divine within is the Father, the human is the Son; they are one person as soul and body are one man. Thus the Word brings Redemption. In taking our nature through the virgin, He assumes the burdens of our heredity, the iniquities of us all are made to meet in Him; and our connection with Hell through our hereditary evils, He takes up into His own life. In His life on earth He brings the eternal Word in conquering conflict with the evils of the race; He is tempted in all points yet without sin; and "in that He hath suffered being tempted, He is able to succor them that are tempted." The Divine Soul within Him acted by the human nature as the soul operates by the body; and as the soul conquers, regenerates and reconciles to itself the body, so God in Christ reconciles the world unto Himself, glorifies the human nature with the Divine, unites it to the