the coming of Christ; the answer to the second, to the New Testament record and commentary. We must consider now at least these three elements in the faith which Jesus accepted from Israel, in which his own deeds and words were rooted and without which they cannot be-understood. First is the faith that the God in whose name Jesus has come is the Creator of all things, the sovereign Lord of time with power to bring one age to an end and to declare the coming of a new one. Second is the faith that