Q. 34.-" Have the Old-Testament saints resurrection-life now ? and can it be said that they are seated in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus ?"

Ans.-The life of all saints is in Christ, and therefore the same life in all. That it is resurrection-life has, I suppose, its special force for us who are still in mortal bodies, and walking by faith on earth. According to the Lord's words in John 11:25, power of resurrection is manifested for Old-Testament saints when they are raised up from the dead. The conscious security and liberty of justified men, which is involved for us, no one would, that I know, deny to those who are the "spirits of just men" departed to God.

As to the second question, they are in Christ, as we are ; but we are only in the heavenlies in Christ:they are in paradise themselves. This again gives a special force for us in the truth of Eph. 2:6.

Q. 35.-"What is the nature of the oneness in Hebrews 2:ii? Is it oneness of life, or oneness of sanctified position ?

Ans.-It is oneness of life surely. " For both He that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one "- (ξέvός, out of one,) of one father-a well-known use of the preposition, and which seems here to be settled by what follows :-" for which cause He is not ashamed to call them brethren"-to own them as His Father's children. The expression, " He is not ashamed," is a difficulty with some as to this interpretation; for in this case, if is said, He could not do otherwise than call them brethren. But surely the possession of divine life by the redeemed leaves yet so immense a distance between them and Him, as to leave abundance of room for the condescending grace of such a title given to them by Him. These poor children of the dust, partakers too of a fallen nature, did it not require an eye and a heart such as His to recognize in them His brethren? And at any rate, was not the link there, and when He says, " Go to My brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto My Father and to your Father," can it be believed that the very thing which makes His Father our Father is not in His mind?

As to the other thought, of a position as man sanctified to God, His as true Man by incarnation, and ours as by His work set apart, it certainly accords less with "My Father and your Father," and with the passage itself. " For both He that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one" makes the sanctification to be only the state of the sanctified, while it is the work of the Sanctifier. To say " all of one class," which, or some equivalent word must be introduced in this case, would certainly not give the idea of "one in sanctification," and how else it is implied, I do not see.

Q. 36.-"Rom. 11:25 :'Until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in;' does that mean the completion of the Church ?" .

Ans.-Practically that:it is the full number of those grafted in in the place of the cut-off Jewish branches.

C.E.H.