authority (exousia), with which He speaks in the Sermon on the Mount, and with which He forgives sins on earth. To this belong His miracles, the signals of the great time of salvation. But at the same time He forbids men to make them known. His Messiahship is a secret. The whole paradox of it is concentrated in the name Son of Man, that is, human being amidst human beings, man who sows, and who must bide the result of the harvest. But it also implies: Son of Man who, according to the prophecy of