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The aim of A. T. Robertson’s classic Studies in the New Testament is to make the New Testament more intelligible and more easily taught to others. The book is not meant for technical scholars or students in theological seminaries. Instead, Robertson writes to the average teacher in the Sunday school, the adult Bible class, boys and girls in the high schools, those in their first year or so in...

redeemer-gods, had come into contact with Christianity, absorbing some of it also. These Gnostics (the knowing ones) had a theory that matter was all evil and God as pure and good spirit could not have created it. Hence, they taught a series of æons or emanations between God and matter. Jesus they treated as one of these subordinate æons and thus the person of Christ became a very acute issue. In reply Paul vigorously asserted the leadership of Christ in the universe and the deity of Jesus Christ. Hence,