(A Word of Explanation.)

Our attention has been called by a brother to the above article, which appeared in our last month's issue. He points out that the expressions in the second head, if taken literally, would teach that man is brought into union with deity, just as Christ the divine Son took up as in less human nature into union with Himself." He is the first divine man ; " and this would imply that there are others.

We are grateful to our brother for calling attention to what most certainly, if taken literally, would teach dreadful error, and which should have been more carefully edited. We are equally sure no such error was in the mind of the writer of the article, who would, with all of us, shrink with horror from the thought of our Lord being but one man linked with deity, out of many others. We simply understood the writer to mean that the marriage was a figure of union of saved souls with Christ; and that this in its way was supernatural, even as, in another way, our Lord, in a supernatural way, united in Himself the human and divine natures, and as His birth was also miraculous.

We must take upon ourselves the responsibility and the blame of having allowed such expressions to go into print, and again thank our brother for his faithfulness in pointing out the error.