be given for denying that Jesus Himself spoke expressly of His pre-temporal life.1 But only the Fourth Gospel alludes definitely to the subject, and, if we may assume that its representations are founded in historic fact, there is much attractiveness in the suggestion that Christ’s consciousness of eternal being is not so much reminiscence as knowledge formed slowly in His mature mind. “We must maintain,” writes Dr. Garvie, “that the contents of the consciousness of the child Jesus growing in wisdom