disciples, Lk. 12:32. But it represents only one side of the truth, for in the kingdom other attributes of God besides his fatherhood find expression. The doctrine of God in its entire fulness alone is capable of furnishing that broader basis on which the structure of his teaching on the kingdom can be built in agreement with Jesus’ own mind. On the other hand, it cannot be denied that in many respects the idea of the kingdom acted in our Lord’s thought and teaching as a crystallizing point around