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The Fundamentals the Lord is upon Me because He hath annointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor;” “He through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles;” “the revelation of Jesus Christ which God gave unto Him;” “these things saith He that holdeth the seven stars in His right hand;” “He that hath an ear let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches” (Luke 4:18; Acts 1:2; Rev. 1:1; 2:1, 11). If the incarnate Word needed the unction of the Holy Ghost to give to men the revelation He received from the Father in Whose bosom He dwells; and if the agency of the same Spirit ex tended to the words He spake in preaching the gospel to the meek or dictating an epistle, how much more must these things be so in the case of ordinary men when engaged in the same service? With what show of reason can one contend that any Old or New Testament writer stood, so far as his words were concerned, in need of no such agency.”—The New Apologetic, pp. 67, 68. In the second place He used the scriptures as though they were inspired as to their words. In Matthew 22:31, 32, He substantiates the doctrine of the resurrection against the skep ticism of the Sadducees by emphasizing the present tense of the verb “to be,” i. e., the word “am” in the language of Jehovah to Moses at the b,urning bush. In verses 42-45 of the same chapter He does the same for His own Deity by allud ing to the second use of the word “Lord” in Psalm CX. “The LORD said unto my Lord * * * If David then- call him Lord, how is he his son?” In John 10:34-36, He vindicates Himself from the charge of blasphemy by saying, “Is it not written in yoUr law, I said, Ye are gods? If He called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken; say ye of him, whom the Father hath sancti fied, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?” We have already seen Him (in Matthew 4) overcoming the tempter in the wilderness by three quotations from Deuter-
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