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The Fundamentals ye shall find rest unto your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light” (Matt. 11:28-30). In this invitation our Lord proclaims Himself to be everything to the soul. We are to come to Him, to take His yoke upon us, and to learn of Him. In receiving Him we shall find rest unto our souls, for He will give us rest. Now, God alone is the resting-place of the human spirit. In Him, and in Him only, can we find assured peace. But Jesus claims to be our rest. Must He not, then, be God Incarnate? And very noticeable is the fact that, in the same breath in which He speaks of Himself in these august terms, He says: I am meek and lowly in heart.” But where were His meek- ness and lowliness in making such a claim, if He were simply a man like ourselves? In the same spirit are those memorable passages in which this wonderful personage speaks of Himself as our peace. Peace I leave with you, My peace I give unto you; not as the world giveth, give I unto you” (John 14:27). “These words have I spoken unto you, that in Me ye might have peace” (John 16:33). Thus ever does the Lord concentrate our thoughts upon Himself. But what must He be to be worthy of such supreme attention? 9. Jesus permitted Thomas to adore Him as his Lord and his God, and pronounced an eulogium upon the faith thus displayed. (John 20:28.) On this fact we quote the admir- able comment of Dean Alford: “The Socinian view, that these words, ‘my Lord and my God,’ are merely an exclama- tion, is refuted, (1) By the fact that no such exclamations were in use among the Jews. (2) By the ebrev avr<5 (he said to Him, that is, Christ). (3) By the impossibility of referring O K v p i ó s /XOV, my Lord, to another than Jesus. (See verse 13.) (4) By the New Testament usage of expressing the vocative by the nominative with an article. (5) By the utter psychological absurdity of such a supposition; that one just convinced of the presence of Him whom he deeply
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