The God-Man 65 (see John 5:18); and to make Himself God. (See John 10:33.) Did they understand Him? Did they overestimate the significance of this title as claimed by our Lord? How easy it would have been for Him to set them right. How im- perative were His obligations to do so, not merely to Himself, but to these unhappy men who were thirsting for His blood under a misapprehension. Did not every principle of philan- thropy require Him to save them from the perpetration of the terrible murder which He knew they were, contemplating? Yes, if they were mistaken, it was a heinous crime in our Lord not to undeceive them. But not a word did He say to soften down the offensiveness of His claim. He allowed it to stand in all its repulsiveness to the Jewish mind, and died without making any sign that He had been misapprehended. He thus accepted the Jewish interpretation of His meaning, and sealed that sense of the title, Son of God, with His heart’s blood. Nothing can be clearer, then, than the fact that Jesus died with- out a protest for claiming equality with God, and thus making Himself God. We dare not trust ourselves to write what we must think of Him under such circumstances, if He were a mere man. 2. / esus, on several occasions, claimed a divine supremacy in both worlds. Take for example His description of the final judgment: “The Son of man shall send forth His angels, and they shall gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity: and shall cast them into the fur- nace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth” (Matt. 13:41). The kingdom is His, and all the angels of God are His obedient servants. He declared in the plainest terms that He will preside as the Universal Judge at the last great day, and that His wisdom and authority will award to every man his appropriate doom. “When the Son of man shall come in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then shall He sit upon the throne of His
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