NOTE-The attention of the Editor has been called to the answer given to Ques. 16, in our July number, which is liable to be misunderstood, chiefly because of what it omits saying. He therefore supplies the deficiency here:
The three Persons in the Trinity-Father, Son, and Holy Spirit -being in nature the same, coequal and coeternal, there can therefore be no disparity between them, nor precedence of One over the Other.
But to accomplish God's purposes of love and glory, the Son, in grace, became man, and this necessitated the place of subjection which, in creation, a sou has toward his father. It is only in this sense, therefore, that the Lord could possibly say, "My Father is greater than I." Nor does this in the slightest degree interfere with His place and eternal glory as God, any more than His humanity interferes with His deity. Nay, more; for He has by this place of subjection and humiliation accomplished that which but brings new luster to the glory of God-to His glory, therefore, who is indeed "the true God and eternal life."
Holy indeed is the theme, calling upon us to take off our shoes when we approach it, lest there be found with us fault even in expression.