are dead, and thou promisest exemption from death to any one who will keep thy saying! pray, who art thou?’ The Climax (54–59). 54. Jesus answered, If I honour myself, my honour is nothing: it is my Father that honoureth me; of whom ye say, that he is your God: 55. Yet ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know him, and keep his saying [λόγον]—or ‘word.’ Our Lord now rises to the summit of holy, naked severity, thereby
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