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in Science. He was the son of a virgin. The term
Christ Jesus, or Jesus the Christ (to give the full and
proper translation of the Greek), may be rendered
"Jesus the anointed," Jesus the God-crowned
or the divinely royal man, as it is said of him in
the first chapter of Hebrews: -
Therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee
With the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
With this agrees another passage in the same chapter,
which refers to the Son as "the brightness of His [God's]
glory, and the express [expressed] image of His person
[infinite Mind]." It is noteworthy that the phrase "express
image" in the Common Version is, in the Greek
Testament, character. Using this word in its higher meaning,
we may assume that the author of this remarkable
epistle regarded Christ as the Son of God, the royal
reflection of the infinite; and the cause given for the exaltation
of Jesus, Mary's son, was that he "loved righteousness
and hated iniquity." The passage is made
even clearer in the translation of the late George R.
Noyes, D.D.: "Who, being a brightness from His glory,
and an image of His being."
Jesus of Nazareth was the most scientific man that
ever trod the globe. He plunged beneath the material
surface of things, and found the spiritual
cause. To accommodate himself to immature
ideas of spiritual power, - for spirituality was possessed
only in a limited degree even by his disciples, -
Jesus called the body, which by spiritual power he
raised from the grave, "flesh and bones." To show
that the substance of himself was Spirit and the body
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