new life of union with God which Christians are to lead. It is in Him as Risen that the Almighty continues that revelation of Himself to us as a Father, upon which the life of sonship rests. To make such a revelation at the first was the great aim of the Incarnation. It was not merely that He might be in a position to fulfil the law or to endure its penalty, to yield a perfect obedience to His Father’s will, or to die upon the cross, that the eternal Son of God became the Son of man. These purposes