36 The F'ltlidan·1ental.1:. d lo o w c e u d me a n s ta t r h y e m te a a t c t h er e s r o o f f i d n o f c e t r r io in r al va tr lu u e th , h a o n w d c th an e r H ev e ea b l e er fo o l f Godu? (John 3 :12.) (Liddon, Divinity of Our Lord, pages 475-480.) AFTER THE KENOSIS. Men say in this connection that part of the humiliation of Christ was His being touched with the infirmities of our c h a u l m le a d n do ig c n tr o i r n a e nc o e f a th n e d K fa e l n l o ib s i i l s i , tie o s r . th T e h e e m y pt d y w in e g ll , u as po e n xp t l h a e ini s n o g satisfactorily His limitations. But Christ spoke of the Old Testament Scriptures after His resurrection. He affirmed fi af ll t e e d r Hwh is ic g h lo w ri e o r u e s w re r s i u tt r e r n ect in ion th t e ha l t aw "a o ll f th M in o g s s es, mu an st d b i e n f t u h l e prophets, and in the Psalms concerning Me" (Luke 24 :44). This was not a statement made during the time of the Kenosis, when Christ was a mere boy, or a youth, or a mere Jew after the flesh ( 1 Cor. 13 : 1 1 ) . It is the statement of Him Who has been declared the Son of God with power. It is the Voice that is final and overwhelming. The limitations of the Kenosis are all abandoned now, and yet the Risen Lord not only does not give a shadow of a hint that any statement in the Old Testament is inaccurate or that any portion thereof needed revision or correction, not only most solemnly declared that those books which we receive as the product of Moses were indeed the books of Moses, but authorized with His Divine i g m in p n r i i n m g at to ur e t n h d e . whole of the Old Testament Scriptures from be There are, however, two or three questions that must be raised, as they will have to be faced by every student of present day problems. The first is thi s : Is not refusal of the higher critical conclusions mere opposition to light and progress and the position of i gn antists? orant alarmists and obscur
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