CHAPTER XXV THE PURPOSES OF THE INCARNATION. BY REV. G. CAMPBELL MORGAN, D. D., PASTOR OF WESTMINSTER CHAPEL, LONDON, ENGLAND.
FOREWORD.
The title of this meditation marks its limitation, and indi cates its scope. Here is no attempt at defense of the statement of the New Testament that “the Word was made flesh.” That is taken for granted as true. Moreover, here is no attempt to explain the method of the Holy Mystery. That is recognized as Mystery: a fact revealed which is yet beyond human comprehension or explanation. The scope is that of considering in broad outline the plain teaching of the New Testament as to the purposes of the Incarnation. Its final limitation is that of its brevity. If, however, it serve to arouse a deeper sense of the wonder of the great central fact of our common Faith, and thus to inspire further meditation, its object will be gained. THE INCARNATION. The whole teaching of Holy Scripture places the Incarna tion at the center of the methods of God with a sinning race. Toward that Incarnation everything moved until its accom plishment, finding therein fulfillment and explantion. The messages of the prophets and seers and the songs of the psalm ists trembled with more or less certainty toward the final music which announced the coming of Christ. All the results also of these partial and broken messages of the past led toward the Incarnation. 337
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