QUES. 19.-Will von kindly explain the 9th verse of 1 John 3:?

ANS. View in" the passage as the expression of what constitutes the child of God, it declares that, by virtue of his being born of God, he possesses a life whose nature is incapable of sinning; it is God's "seed," which "remaineth in" the believer, and from it can proceed no sin, even as elsewhere we are told that from the nature we obtain in our human birth there can proceed no good.

If we view the passage as in relation to the practical life of the child of God, it is also true that, once born of God, he cannot continue in the life of sin he practiced before; it would be misery to him. He loves holiness, and henceforth treads its paths.

No notice is taken here of the evil nature which still abides in the child of God. This is expressed in chap. 2:1 of this same epistle, and fully developed in Rom. 6:and 7:

QUES. 20.-What is the meaning of the title "Son of man," as given to our Lord ?

ANS.-The title "Son of man," which our Lord constantly took, connected Him, on the one hand, with subjection and obedience to God; and on the other, with universal headship-not merely with Israel. It expresses the excellencies which God has found in Him as man. Adam had been made in the image of God, after His likeness; but he fell, and what man should have been for God totally failed in him. In our Lord He has found it. No matter in what circumstances He was placed, Jesus never deviated from the true path of man before God. Obedience, which is the highest virtue to be found in man, so wholly wanting in the first, is seen in all its perfection in the Second. Let suffering be what it would, He obeyed, and obeyed in that mind which makes His life on earth an offering of sweet-smelling savor to God. It was His meat and drink to do His Father's will.

Jesus is therefore the true man after God's heart, the very essence of the humanity which was in the mind of God, answering to all that God desired in man. All this, and more, is expressed in the lovely title "Son of man;" and it is in relation to that title that His sorrows and His future glories are seen, barring out, of course, the glories which have ever been and ever will be His as God.