ANALYSIS OF THE LECTURES. The Question before us in these Lectures is proposed by our Lord Himself, and is a strictly theological one Its import 1. as affirming that Christ is the Son of Man 2. as enquiring what He is besides I. Enduring interest of the question thus raised even for II 1. jealously guards the truth of Christ's Manhood 18 2. secures its full force to the idea of Godhead . 26 IV. Position taken in these Lectures stated Objections to the necessary discussion- a. From the ground of Historical Estheticism xxii Analysis of the Lectures. Principle of the Organic Unity of Scripture-Its import- I. Foreshadowings- a. Indications in the Old Testament of a Plurality of Persons within the One Divine Essence PAGE 45 Probable Providential purpose of Philo's speculations. II. Predictions and Announcements- Hope in a future, a moral necessity for men and nations 73 Four stages observable in the Messianic doctrine- a. From the Protevangelium to the death of Moses y. From Isaiah to Malachi 8. After Malachi Contrast between the original doctrine and the se- Christ was rejected for appealing from the debased Conclusion: The foregoing argument illustrated— 1. from the emphatic Monotheism of the Old 2. from its full description of Christ's Manhood . Analysis of the Lectures. xxiii LECTURE III. OUR LORD'S WORK IN THE WORLD A WITNESS TO HIS DIVINITY. St. Matt. xiii. 54-56. Its substance the formation of a world-wide spi- It is set forth in His Discourses and Parables. 1. Not by reference to the growth of other 2. Not by the 'causes' assigned by Gibbon But only by the belief in, and truth of Christ's Divinity The Christ of history' none other than the 'Christ of A. The Miracles of the Gospel History- Their bearing upon the question of Christ's Person. Christ's Moral Perfection bound up with their reality I. First stage of His Teaching chiefly Ethical II. Second stage: increasing Self-assertion which is justified by dogmatic revelations of His a. in His claim of co-equality with the Father St. John's Gospel 'the battle-field' of the New Testament I. Ancient and modern objections to its claims Analysis of the Lectures. II. It is a Life of the Eternal Word made flesh Doctrine of the Eternal Word in the Prologue. Manifestation of the Word, as possessing the Divine XXV PAGE V. It incurs the objection that a God-Man is philosophi- This objection misapprehends the Scriptural and Ca- |