Christianity. It might be asked what remains? One infinite thing remains, Eternity; the wants of the spiritual reason. St. John drops the great keystone into the soaring arch of Christian revelation, when he represents Christ, neither as Messiah only, nor King only, nor even as Saviour only, but as the Incarnate Word; as Christ, the Life and Light of men, the pre-existent and Eternal Son of God; not only as the Son of Man who ascended into heaven, but as the Son of God, who descended from heaven
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