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The Fundamentals with the next verse, the 9th.) The prayer was offered to Jesus, and was responded to by Jesus, as the context demon- strates. The primitive disciples are thus described: “All that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours” (1 Cor. 1:2). Every convert was, by Christ’s orders, baptized in His name conjointly with that of the Father and the Holy Spirit; and thus the whole Church was taught to adore Him as equal with God at the solemn hour of religious profession (Matt. 28:19.) ' The apostolical benediction invokes Jesus in prayer with God and the Holy Ghost (2 Cor. 13:14), and the entire sacred record doses with a solemn litany to the Son: “The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen” (Rev. 22:21). Again we ask, Who is this if He be not the God-man ? 10- _ Jesus indirectly compared Himself with God. He did so in these words: “No man knoweth the Son [Luke gives it, “Who the Son is”], but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father [Luke gives it, “Who the Father is”], save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal Him” (See Matt. 11:27 and Luke 10:22). These statements are, per- haps, the most remarkable that fell even from the lips of Jesus In them He asserted the Son to be as great a mystery as the Father, and consequently as difficult to know. This was m effect claiming equality with God. Nothing less can be made of it. Then, too, the Lord professed such a knowl- edge of God as can only be possessed by God. He indeed asserted that He knew the Father as well as the Father knew Him Altogether, no language can well be more shockingly familiar and profane than these words of the Saviour Were if He were no more than a man. Let the reader well ponder them in the version both of Matthew and Luke
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