EPITOME OF THE FAITH

INSTRUCTOR’S GUIDE: AN EPITOME OF ‘THE FAITH ONCE DELIVERED TO THE SAINTS’{ Jude 1:3}

FOR THE ASSISTANCE OF BIBLE STUDENTS ESPECIALLY IN THEIR PRESENTATIONS OF THE TRUTH TO OTHERS

COMPILED BY G. W. SEIBERT

TOPICS IN ORDER AS FOLLOWS: SOUND DOCTRINE THE CREATOR BEGINNING OF CREATION HUMANITY SATAN MAN’S FALLS IN’S PENALTY THE HOPE OF DELIVERANCE THE COVENANTS SHEOL, HADES THE REDEEMER UNITY TRINITY THE RANSOM THE ELECT THE CALL OF THE CHURCH THE HIDDEN MYSTERY THE BRIDE PRECIOUS PROMISES TO THE ELECT JUSTIFICATION SANCTIFICATION BAPTISM SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE DELIVERANCE OF ELECT KINGS AND PRIESTS MORTALITY IMMORTALITY SECOND COMING OF CHRISTTHE HARVESTTHE DAY OF VENGEANCETHE GREAT COMPANY YOUR KINGDOM COME RESURRECTION MILLENNIAL MORNING WORLD-WIDE PROMISES RESTORATION DAY OF JUDGMENT FREE GRACE SECOND DEATH GEHENNA

SYMBOLS USED

A, B, C, D, E, F, represent the six volumes of ‘Dawn Scripture Studies’;

T, ‘Tabernacle Shadows’; S, ‘Spiritism’; H, ‘Hell of the Bible’; Z’07-48, ‘Zion’s Watch Tower for 1907, page 48. Z’79-9-5 signifies ‘Zion’s Watch Tower,’ year 1879, ninth calendar month (September), page 5.

N’07-11-24 signifies Newspaper Report of a sermon delivered by Bro. Russell in the year 1907, eleventh calendar month (November), 24th day of the month.

Q’05-10-20 signifies Old Theology Quarterly, year 1905, tenth calendar month (October), page 20.

O-17 signifies Outline of Three Discourses on the Chart, page 17.

Scriptures quoted from the original King James Bible with revisions for modern English.

’SOUND DOCTRINE’

‘Contend earnestly for the Faith,’ Jude 3: Z’98-176; Z’03-423; Z’05-78.

‘Pay attention to yourself and to the doctrine,’ 1Ti 4:16; Z’93-256.

‘Study to show yourself approved to God, rightly dividing the word of truth,’ 2Ti 2:15; Z’02-318;

Z’03-165.

‘Be ready always to give an answerwith meekness and fear,’ 1Pe 3:15; A25; F258.

‘All Scripture, given by inspiration of God, is profitable, that the man of God may be thoroughly furnished,’

2Ti 3:16,17; A25; Z’97-170; Z’03-422.

‘Examine yourselves, whether you be in the faith,’ 2Co 13:5, Z’03-376, 377.

‘Holding fast the faithful word’( see Diaglott), Titus 1:9, 2 Tim. 1:13; Z’95-262; E308, 284.

‘In doctrine showing integrity,’ Tit 2:7; Z’00-332.

‘Speak the things which become sound doctrine,’ Tit 2:1; Z’00-332.

‘If any man will do his will, he will know the doctrine’ Joh 7:16,17; Z’99-19; Z’01-169; E54, 50.

‘You will know the truth and the truth will make you free,’ Joh 8:32; Z’03-61; Z’05-60.

‘The time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine,’ 2Ti 4:3; Z’02-5; B258, 263, 264.

‘Though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel,’ Ga 1:8,9; D242.

‘Mark them which cause divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine,’ Ro 16:17; Z’03-199.

‘Whoever transgresses, and abides not in the doctrine of Christ, has not God,’ 2Jo 9; Z’95-203; F302.

THE CREATOR

The Existence of a supreme, intelligent Creator established by evidences aside from the Bible. A29-35.

‘From everlasting to everlasting, you are God,’ Ps 90:2; E94, 86.

‘Whose name alone is JEHOVAH,’ Ps 83:18; E71, 72, 65, 66.

‘I appeared to Abrahamby the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH [‘self-existing, or immortal one’] was I not know to them,’ Ex 6:3; E43, 40.

‘I am the LORD [Jehovah]:my glory will I not give to another,’ Isa 42:8, E43, 44, 40, 41; F396.

‘Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one Jehovah,’ De 6:4,5; E43, 40; Z’01-15; .{ see Mr 12:32,33}

‘To us there is but one God,’ 1Co 8:5,6; E58, 415, 54, 398.

Divine Attributes. E435, 482, 421, 472; T124; E36, 37, 34, 35.

Justice, Ps 89:14 De 32:4. Wisdom, Isa 40:13,14 Ac 15:18.

Love, 1Jo 4:16 Joh 3:16. Power, Ps 89:13 Isa 55:11.

God, the Creator of All Things, Ge 1:1; Z’01-203.

God not the Author of Sin. ‘I make peace and create evil,’ Isa 45:7; ‘Will there be evil in a city, and the LORD has not done it? Am 3:6; A124; Z’95-58, 93.

‘I am the LORD, I change not,’ Mal 3:6; ‘With whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning,’

Jas 1:17; E474, 463, 464. (Compare ‘It repented the LORD,’ Ge 6:6; Z’96-203.)

‘The world by wisdom knew not God,’ 1Co 1:21; Z’01-203.

BEGINNING OF CREATION

The Logos. ‘In the beginning was the Word (Logos),’ John 1:1; E93, 85.

‘The beginning of the creation of God,’ Re 3:14; E95, 97, 87, 88.

‘The firstborn of all creation,’ Col 1:15-18; E95, 86.

‘I will make him, my firstborn, higher than the kings of earth,’ Ps 89:27; E95, 87.

‘All things were made by him,’ Joh 1:3; E95, 87.

‘By him were all things created,’ Col 1:16; E95, 86.

‘God sent his only begotten Son into the world,’ 1Jo 4:9; E97, 88.

‘We beheld his glory as of the only begotten of the Father,’ Joh 1:10,14; E97, 89.

‘Father, glorify me with the glory which I had with you before the world was,’ Joh 17:5; E96, 87.

‘Before Abraham was, I am,’ Joh 8:14,23,42-58; E99, 90.

‘Jehovah possessed me in the beginning of his way,’ Pr 8:22-30; E102, 93.

‘I am the first and the last,’ Re 1:17,2:8; E102, 103, 93.

HUMANITY

‘And God said, Let us make man in our image,’ Ge 1:26,27; A120, 201; F39-41; Z’01-206.

‘And the LORD God formed man [the body] of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life [spirit]; and the man became a living SOUL,’ Ge 2:7; E332-374, 307-353.

Body, soul and spirit of the Church as a whole, not as individuals, ‘preserved,’ 1Th 5:23; E374, 353.

Man and the lower animals ‘have all one breath’( ruach, spirit), Eccl. 3:19-21; E335, 350, 353, 310, 326, 327.

‘You made him [man] a little lower than the angels,’ Heb 2:7,8 Ps 8:4; A175, 179; E440, 427.

‘And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good,’ Ge 1:31; E422, 423, 406, 407.

‘His work is perfect,’ De 32:4; E334, 309.

‘God has made man upright,’ Ec 7:29; E422, 406.

SATAN

Satan’s personality. (Texts, F609-611.)

‘Your adversary, the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about,’ 1Pe 5:8; F609.

‘You are of your father, the devil,’ Joh 8:44; F612.

‘Resist the devil, and he will flee from you,’ Jas 4:7; S23.

‘He [Satan] was a murderer from the beginning and abode not in the Truth,’ Joh 8:44.

Satan’s Power. ‘Him that has the power of death, that is the devil,’ Heb 2:14; Z’99-60; E459, 448.

‘The god of this world,’ 2Co 4:4; ‘Prince of the power of the air,’ Eph 2:2; F199, 617, 627.

‘The prince of this world,’ Joh 14:30; E126, 459, 113, 448.

‘We are not ignorant of his devices,’ 2Co 2:11; Z’01-71, 155.

‘Now is the judgment of this world, now will the Prince of this world be cast out,’ Joh 12:31; Z’02-191.

‘Michael the Archangeldid not bring against him a railing accusation,’ Jude 9; Z’98-154; F608.

‘Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light,’ 2Co 11:14; A259; Z’03-85, 89.

Satan originally perfect and sinless. ‘His [God’s] work is perfect,’ De 32:4; F612.

Satan’s ambition and fall. ‘I will be like the Most High,’ Isa 14:13,14; E126, 113; F613, 614; Z’01-215.

‘How are you fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning,’ Isa 14:12; F618; Eze 28:12-19; Z’03-135, and Lu 10:18; Z’00-235; Z’06-166.

Satan’s allies. ‘Those angels which kept not their first estate,’ 2Pe 2:4 Jude 6; F619-624; Z’97-181.

Satan to be bound and destroyed.

‘And he laid hold on Satan and bound him 1,000 years,’ Re 20:1-3; E236, 218; Z’00-175.

‘The God of peace will bruise Satan under your feet shortly,’ Ro 16:20; Z’01-219, 220; Heb 2:14; E407, 409, 390, 392; Mt 25:41; Z’01-37; Re 20:7-9; Z’01-42.

MAN’S FALL

The warning. ‘In the day that you eat of it you will surely die,’ Ge 2:16,17; A209; E23, 22; F332.

The temptation and Satan’s lie.

‘You will not surely die,’ Ge 3:1-4; F614-616; Z’01- 4-216.

‘As the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety,’ 2Co 11:3; A61; S48.

‘Adam was not deceived,’ 1Ti 2:14; A123; E423, 408; Z’01-218.

‘As by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin,’ Ro 5:12; F333, Ro 5:19; A108.

‘All in Adam die,’ 1Co 15:22; E110-113, 100-103.

‘There is none righteous, no, not one,’ Ro 3:10; E105, 96.

‘All have sinned and come short of the glory of God,’ Ro 3:23; E423, 407.

‘None can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him,’ Ps 49:7; E433, 418.

SIN’S PENALTY, THE CURSE, DEATH

‘Dying you will die,’ (margin), Gen. 2:17; A140, 154; E423, 424, 407, 408; F331, 332; Z’01-216.

‘The wages of sin is death,’ Ro 6:23; A128; F332.

‘The wrath of God is revealed against all unrighteousness,’ Ro 1:18; E425, 409.

Death signifies destruction of being.

‘God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish,’

Joh 3:16; Z’00-43.

‘If there be no resurrection, then they which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished,’ 1Co 15:13-18; E371,

349, 350.

‘The wicked will perish,’ Ps 37:20; E405, 388.

‘The wicked will not be,’ Ps 37:10; E405, 388.

‘All the wicked will he destroy,’ Ps 145:20; E409, 392.

‘Dust you are and to dust will you return,’ Ge 3:19; Z’01-217.

‘All are of the dust, and all turn to dust again,’ Ec 3:20.

‘That which befalls the sons of men befalls beasts; as the one dies, so dies the other,’ Ec 3:19; E339, 315.

‘Then will the dust return to the earth, as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it,’ Ec 12:7; E340, 366, 315, 344.

‘The soul that sins it will die,’ Eze 18:4; E475, 454, 465, 442.

‘His breath goes forth, that very day his thoughts perish,’ Ps 146:4, S8.

‘The dead know not anything,’ Ec 9:5,10; E369, 388, 347, 368.

Death’s concomitants. ‘To the woman he said, I will greatly multiply your sorrows,’ Ge 3:16; Z’92-360.

‘And to Adam he said, in the sweat of your face will you eat bread, till you return to the ground,’ Ge 3:19; E430, 431, 415, 416; Z’92-361; Z’01-219.

‘Cursed is the ground for your sake,’ Ge 3:17, Z’02-191.

Death called ‘sleep.’ ‘Our friend Lazarus sleepsLazarus is dead,’ Joh 11:11-14; E352, 367, 329, 345.

‘Stephen fell asleep,’ Ac 7:60. ‘David fell on sleep,’ Ac 13:36.

‘The fathers fell asleep,’ 2Pe 3:4.

‘Christis become the first fruits of them that slept,’ 1Co 15:20.

‘We will not all sleep,’ 1Co 15:51.

All mankind are said to ‘sleep in Jesus,’ 1Th 4:14; E352, 353, 329, 330; E336-372, 343-350.

(See ‘SECOND DEATH.’)

THE HOPE OF DELIVERANCE

First faint ray: ‘It [the Seed of the woman] will bruise your head,’ Ge 3:15; A77; F353.

The Abrahamic Covenant.

‘In you and in your Seed will all the families of the earth be blessed,’ Ge 12:1-3 28:14 22:16-18; F353; Z’97-80; Z’02-343.

The gospel ‘preached before to Abraham,’ Ga 3:8; Z’00-86, 87.

An unconditional, oath-bound Covenant: Heb 6:13-19.

‘Surely I will bless you,’ Ge 18:18,19 Heb 6:14.

‘By myself have I sworn,’ Ge 22:16-18; Z’97-80, 81; Z’02-343.

‘Confirmed to Isaac and to Jacob,’ 1Ch 16:16,17 Ge 26:1-5 35:9-12 ; A78.

Two ‘seeds’ promised: [a spiritual]‘ as the stars of heaven and [an earthly] as the sand which is upon the seashore,’ Ge 22:17 Ro 11:17; A292; Z’01-248.

Earthly promise to Abraham not yet fulfilled: ‘And he gave him none inheritance in it,’ Ac 7:5; A293;

Z’01-250.

The Church developed under Abrahamic Covenant: ‘We, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise,’ Ga 4:28; E116, 105; F360; Z’02-343; Z’05-378; Z’07-8.

Spiritual ‘Seed’ developed first. ‘God having provided some better thing for us, [Spiritual Israel], that they without us should not be made perfect,’ Heb 11:39,40; A293; T105-112.

Only steps so far taken in fulfillment of Abrahamic Covenant. Z’97-83.

Israel’s Covenant.

ISRAEL.

The twelve sons of Jacob: Ge 49:28; A78.

‘A kingdom of priests, and an holy nation,’ Ex 19:5,6; B207.

‘You only have I known of all the families of the earth,’ Am 3:2; F85, 176; Z’06-105.

‘What advantage has the Jew? Much every way,’ Ro 3:1,2; C244.

Their hope. ‘The hope of the promise made of God to our fathers,’ Ac 26:6,7; Z’01-250; Z’04-328.

Israel to be re-gathered. ‘God has not [utterly] cast away his people which he foreknew,’ Ro 11:1,2; A108; Z’96-95, 96.

‘If the casting away of them [temporarily] be the reconciling of the world, what will the receiving of them be?’

Ro 11:15; Z’97-229.

‘Blindness in part has happened to Israel, untiland so all Israel will be saved [from their blindness],’

Ro 11:25, 26; A108; Z’05-379.

God’s law originally written in Adam is implied, by ‘Let us make man in our image,’ Ge 1:26; Z’97-229.

Law obliterated by the fall: ‘When they knew God they glorified him notand their foolish heart was darkened,’ Ro 1:21-28; Z’00-325; D68-70.

Moses the Mediator of the Law Covenant. ‘He took the bloodand sprinkled both the book and all the people,’ Heb 9:19-21 Ex 24:8; F354; Z’97-81.

The Mosaic Law or Law Covenant ‘added’ to Abrahamic Covenant ‘because of transgressions,’ Ga 3:19; F355, 360, 361; Z’97-81. Typified by High Priest’s breast-plate, T34.

The Law promised life: ‘The Law is not of faith, but the man that does them will live in them,’ Ga 3:12 Le 18:5 Ro 10:5; Z’97-81.

Law Covenant found to be ‘to death,’ Ro 7:10; E432, 417; Z’96-71.

The Law was our schoolmaster (pedagogue) to bring us to Christ,’ Ga 3:24; Z’94-350.

Christ ‘made under the Law [Covenant] to redeem them that were under the Law,’ Ga 4:4,5; E432, 417.

Christ made an end of the Law Covenant, ‘nailing it to his cross,’ Col 2:14; B85.

Unbelieving Jews still under the Law Covenant. ‘Christ is the end of the Law for righteousness [only] to him that believes,’ Ro 10:4; Z’06-105; F379.

Purpose of the Law Covenant to manifest the imperfection of all mankind, and the perfection of Christ Jesus, F355; Z’97-81, 82.

God will make ‘a new covenant with the house of Israel,’ Jer 31:31-34; F358, 359.

The New Covenant.

‘This will be the Covenant, I will put my Law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts,’ Jer 31:33,34; Z’97-229; Z’02-343.

The New Covenant a later addition to the Abrahamic Covenant, Z’97-81, 82; typified by High Priest’s Ephod,

(back part), T30, 31.

The New Covenant for ‘all the families of the earth,’ Ga 3:8; Z’97-229; F358, 359.

The Mediator of the New Covenant, Jesus, Heb 12:24 9:15 8:6; Z’97-82 and ‘the Church which is his Body,’

Eph 1:22,23; Z’02-344; Z’07-9, 10.

Requirements of the New Covenant, ‘faith, love, obedience and reformation to the extent of ability,’

Z’97-82, 83; F359.

Object of the New Covenant, Z’97-82, 1st col.

New Covenant not yet gone into effect, F358; Z’02-344; Z’05-378.

God will pour out his Spirit ‘upon all flesh’ when the New Covenant becomes operative, Joe 2:28; T88, 89; E235, 260, 217, 239.

The three Covenants allegorically represented in Sarah, Hagar, Keturah, Ga 4:22-31 Ge 25:1; E116, 117, 105, 106; F361.

Resume.

‘The whole subject becomes transparent when we see that the Abrahamic Covenant (which needed no mediator because it was God’s unconditional promise, confirmed by his oath) is the full, broad statement of the divine plan, and that as the Law Covenant was added (to illustrate the inability of sinners to help themselves and) to manifest Christ Jesus as the Seed of Promise, so the New Covenant is added (to the Abrahamic Covenant) also, not to hinder the blessing of every creature, but to make that blessing of knowledge and the Millennial Kingdom opportunities more effective, even to everlasting life to those approved under it.’ Z’97-83.

SHEOL, HADES

Sheol. ‘The Hebrew word Sheol occurs 65 times in the Old Testament Scriptures. In the King James version, it is translated 3 times as pit, 31 times as grave, and 31 times as hell.’ ‘Oblivion, a better translation.’ E375, 354.

Jacob’s relation to sheol: ‘I will go down into the grave [sheol] to my son mourning,’ Ge 37:35; E376, 355.

‘You will bring my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave [sheol],’ Gen. 42:38; E376, 355.

Korah, Dathan and Abiram went to sheol: ‘Theywent down alive into the pit [sheol, oblivion],’ Num. 16:33; E377, 356.

Job’s desire: ‘Oh, that you would hide me in the grave [sheol, oblivion]!’ Job 14:13; E380, 359.

All go there, good and bad: ‘What man is he that lives and will not see death? Will he deliver his soul from the hand [power] of the grave [sheol, oblivion]?’ Psa. 89:48; E386, 365.

Power of God in sheol: ‘If I make my bed in hell [sheol, oblivion], behold you are there,’ Ps 139:7,8; E386, 366.

Jonah in sheol: ‘Out of the belly of hell [sheol], cried I,’ Jon 2:2. The great fish’s belly was Jonah’s tomb, E394, 374.

Hades. ‘In the New Testament the Greek word hades is the exact equivalent of the Hebrew word sheol. The Apostles, in quotations from the O. T., render sheol by the word hades.’ E394, 374.

A city in hades: ‘You, Capernaum, which are exalted to heaven, will be brought down to hell [hades, oblivion],’ Matt. 11:23; E394, 375.

The Church secure: ‘The gates of hell [hades, the tomb, oblivion] will not prevail against it,’ Mt 16:18; E395, 375; Z’06-173.

Christ in hades: ‘You will not leave my soul in hell [hades, the tomb, oblivion],’ Acts 2:27; Psa. 16:10 [sheol]; E396, 377.

Christ holds the keys of hades: ‘I have the keys of hell [hades, the tomb, oblivion] and of death,’ Re 1:18; E397, 378.

Sheol and Hades to be destroyed: ‘O grave [sheol, oblivion], I will be your destruction,’ Ho 13:14; E392, 373.

‘O grave [hades, oblivion], where is your victory?’ 1Co 15:55; E397, 377; H66, 67.

Sheol and Hades refer to the condition or state of the soul, while Qebar, Hebrew for tomb or grave, refers to the place of the dead body, E369, 347, footnote; E382, 362.

(See ‘GEHENNA.’)

THE REDEEMER

‘I will ransom them from the power of the grave, I will redeem them from death,’ Ho 13:14, E392, 393, 373, 374; Z’01-41.

‘When the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son,’ Ga 4:4; E463, 451.

Pre-existence.

‘In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,’ Joh 1:1; E94, 86.

‘The beginning of the creation of God.’ Re 3:14 Col 1:15; E95, 87.

‘Father, glorify you me with the glory which I had with you before the world was,’ Joh 17:5; E96, 87.

‘I proceeded forth and came from God,’ Joh 8:42; E98, 89.

‘What and if you will see the Son of man ascend up where he was before?’ Joh 6:62; E98, 89.

‘I am the living bread which came down from heaven,’ Joh 6:35,51; E98, 89.

‘Before Abraham was, I am,’ Joh 8:58; E99, 90.

Became a man.

‘The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us,’ Joh 1:14; E103, 104, 93-95.

‘He took upon him the form of a servant,’ Php 2:7,8; E88, 411, 455, 81, 394, 443.

‘Made a little lower than the angels,’ Heb 2:9; { Ps 8:4-6} A179; E440, 427.

‘Made of a woman,’ Ga 4:4; E116, 117, 105, 106.

Yet ‘holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners,’ Heb 7:26; E105, 107, 95, 97, 116, 117, 105, 106.

‘Though he was rich, he became poor,’ 2Co 8:9; E96, 87.

‘Every spirit that confesses not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God,’ 1Jo 4:1-3; E320-324,

295-299.

Titles of the Redeemer.

The Logos: ‘In the beginning was the Word [the Logos]’ John 1:1; E93-103, 84-93.

The Only Begotten One: ‘God sent his only begotten Son into the world,’ 1Jo 4:9 Joh 1:14; E97-102,

88-92.

David’s Son and Lord: ‘If David then call him Lord, how is he his son?’ Mt 22:42-45; E143-150, 129-136.

The Root and Offspring of David: ‘I am the root and the offspring of David,’ Re 22:16; E150, 136.

The Second Adam: ‘The Second Adam is the Lord from Heaven,’ 1Co 15:45-47; E152, 137.

The Everlasting Father: ‘His name will be calledthe Everlasting Father,’ Isa 9:6; E156, 141.

The Son of Man: ‘Who is this Son of man?’ Joh 12:34; E163-176, 149-153; Z’06-171; Mt 13:41 24:27,37 25:31 Mr 8:38 Joh 6:62 3:13 .

The Son of God: ‘That holy thing which will be born of you will be called the Son of God,’ Lu 1:35.

‘I said, I am the Son of God,’ Joh 10:36; Z’01-93.

‘Did you not know that I must be about my Father’s business?’ Lu 2:49; E98, 89.

‘I saw and bare record that this is the Son of God,’ Joh 1:34; Z’04-382.

‘These things says the Son of God,’ Re 2:18.

The Advocate: ‘If any man sin we have an Advocate,’ 1Jo 2:1; Z’07-7.

The Mediator: ‘Jesus the Mediator of the New Covenant,’ Heb 12:24; Z’07-9.

UNITY VS. TRINITY

‘Father signifies life-giver, while ‘son’ signifies the one who has received life from another,’ E65, 60.

‘To us there is but one God, the Father, and one Lord, Jesus Christ,’ 1Co 8:6; E58, 54.

‘I and my Father are one,’ Joh 10:30; E81, 82, 75, 76. (Compare with ‘That they may be one even as we are,’

Joh 17:20-23)

‘He that has seen me has seen the Father,’ Joh 14:7-10; E83, 77. (Compare with ‘No man has seen God at any time,’ Joh 1:18 and Ex 33:20)

‘God manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit,’ 1Ti 3:16; E84, 77. (Compare, ‘That the life of Jesus might be made manifest in our flesh,’ 2Co 4:10)

‘Thought it not robbery [meditated not a usurpation] to be equal with God,’ Php 2:6; E86-90, 79-82.

(Compare with ‘My Father is greater than I,’ Joh 14:28)

‘In heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. And there are three that bear witness in earth,’ 1Jo 5:7,8; E61-64, 56-58; Spurious, omitted from oldest Greek MSS. See also Revised Version.

THE RANSOM (E435-494, 421-486)

‘I have found a ransom,’ Job 33:24; E472, 462.

‘The man Christ Jesus, who gave himself a ransom [corresponding price] for all,’ 1Ti 2:5,6; A150; E441, 442, 427, 428.

The Law of God’s Justice.

‘Life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,’ Ex 21:23-25 Le 24:17-21 De 19:21; Z’03-108.

‘Without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sins,’ Heb 9:22; E454, 455, 442, 443.

‘It is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins,’ Heb 10:4; E438, 425; Z’03-108.

‘Wherefore when he comes into the world, he saysa body you have prepared me,’ Heb 10:5; B155.

‘Behold the Lamb of God, which takes away the sin of the world,’ Joh 1:29; E457, 446.

‘The Word was made flesh,’ Joh 1:14; T52.

‘For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection from the dead,’ 1Co 15:21; E105, 438, 439, 95, 424, 425.

‘He took not on him the nature of angels,’ but ‘was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death,’ Heb 2:16,9; E439, 440, 425, 426.

‘Being found in fashion as a man, he became obedient to death,’ Php 2:8, E411, 394.

‘Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood,’ Heb 9:12; Z’01-180.

‘The Son of man came to give himself a ransom,’ Mr 10:45; E104, 441, 442, 94, 426, 427.

‘He is the propitiation for our sins, and for the sins of the whole world,’ 1Jo 2:2; E352, 454, 328, 442; Z’00-87.

‘He was wounded for our transgressions,’ Isa 53:5; E136, 122.

‘He poured out his soul to death, and bare the sin of many,’ Isa 53:12; E141, 127.

‘Messiah will be cut off, but not for himself,’ Da 9:26; A58; B68.

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