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man sent from God.” No earthly patent to nobility so glorious as that. But as high as was John’s position, note the clear line' o f demarcation between John and Jesus: John is “a man sent from God.” He was a wonderful man, a man whom God delighted to honor, but he was a “man.” Jesus was “ God” become flesh. John came to be a witness, and -the purpose o f his testimony was that all might believe through him. God does not ask men to believe blindly, but upon sufficient and abundant testimony. The One that he came to bear witness to was ‘‘the true light,” “the light which lighteth every man, coming unto the Lord.”
world would not lay hold o f the light in His pre-incarnate form, so God gives the Word in a form more easily apprehensible,
an incarnate form. Friday, March 3 1 . John 1 : 6 - 9 .
God’s condescension to man’s infirmity does not stop even at the incarnation o f the light in a form that man could grasp. He went ,beyond that and sent a witness to this incarnate light. T o men who can see, light needs no witness but itself, but men are blind and so-men need one who can see to bear witness to light. God sent such a witness in John the Baptist. What a glorious title John the Baptist bears, “ a
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