QUES. 1.-An explanation of the words " I create evil " in Isaiah 45:7 would be much appreciated by several of us.

ANS.-2 Thess. 2:11 explains it. So also Dent. 28:58-68. It is not an essential creation as in Gen. 1, for out of Him who is Light and Love nothing evil can proceed. It is a summoning of the suitable evil powers in existence for judgment upon such as deserve a judgment at the hand of God.

QUES. 2.-Would be thankful for an exposition of 2 Tim. 2:21, 22.

ANS.-You will find it in a very full way in an article by Mr. Crain, page 68 of our last year's volume. The same is also in pamphlet form, "An Examination of P. Mauro's tract on Christian Fellowship," postpaid, 10 cents.

QUES. 3.-Why does the Lord, in Luke 9:21 forbid His disciples to tell that He was "The Christ of God " ?

ANS.-Because while He was indeed the Christ of God in His Person, He must needs pass through death and resurrection to enter into the great offices of that title. How could He reign over Israel with their sins upon them ? He must first bear their sins in His own body on the tree and thus put them away before He can identify them with Him as His own nation. His words to the two disciples on the way to Emmaus (Luke 24:25-27) show this. Throughout His ministry our Lord ever seeks to hide His Messiahship, except to those who were of faith and could therefore be carried through the times of His humiliation. Even these fainted in a measure as we pee in the two disciples above mentioned.

Thus, while our Lord was as truly the Christ before His death and resurrection as after, He could not be proclaimed abroad as such till the work which is the foundation of that office was accomplished.

And what is true of that office is true of every other. Saviour, King, Priest-every one of His offices rests upon the work of the cross. In His Person, however, every one of them is true of Him from eternity to eternity, and He could exercise them when and as He pleased. Long before the cross He could, on the ground of it, carry an Enoch and an Elijah straight to heaven bodily.

QUES. 4.-Will you kindly say who were the sons of God of Gen. 6:2, 4? also of Job 1:6 and 2:1? Were they angels as some assume, or were they God's chosen of that day? Were the "sons of God " mentioned in both Genesis and Job the same class at the different periods of time?

ANS.-For an answer to your questions see Help and Food 1910 volume, pages 190 and 324. Also the article, "Concerning the Nephilim" p. 81 of the 1911 volume.