It is evident that Jesus regretfully accepted that which their limitations made necessary, although Divinely he foreknew it would be so, namely, that they should teach that he was merely the Messiah, the Son of God; but he did so, as we have already seen, because they could not receive the fuller truth of his identity with the Father. That he actually taught this identity we have shown, and there can be no other rational explanation of him, for his deity in any degree means his absolute oneness with the Father. His own statements concerning himself can be reconciled only by the possession of this knowledge. And he provided in the documents that were written concerning him the basis for the completer revelation of himself at a later time, promising that the later and fuller revelation would be given. "These things have I spoken unto you in parables: but the time cometh when I shall no more speak unto you in parables, but I shall show you plainly of the Father." (John 16:25.) We believe that the time has come when it is no longer necessary for men to perceive the reality only dimly by the light of parables, but openly and fully, upon the basis of his parabolic statements,
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