David O. McKay
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Excerpt from The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 85: June 14, 1923 Iain from all eternity. I have existed before all ages. You consider in me only the person who speaks to you, and who has appeared to you within a particular time. But besides this human nature, which ye think ye know, there is in me a divine and eternal nature. Both, united, subsist together in my person. Abraham knew how to distinguish them. He adored me as his God, and desired me as his Savior. He has seen me in my eternity, and he predicted my coming into the world. To these comments Dr. Clarke adds some of his own on verse 59, as follows: It appears that the Jews understood him (jesus) as asserting his Godhead, and, supposing him to be a blasphemer, they pro ceeded to stone him according to the law (lev. 24: For another text in which Jesus asserted his divinity, read John 10: 31, where these words are written: I and my Father are one. It is observed by the reader that the word my which occurs in this passage is printed in italics, which call attention to the fact that it was supplied by the translators and was not in the original. Now, omitting that word, the essence of the Lord's claim is that he and the Eternal Father, or God over all, are one. Jesus did not mean that in his human nature, with its limitations and frailties, he was one with the Father, but that in his spiritual nature and attributes he is God, like the Father, without begin ing of days nor end of years. There are many Christians of these times who hold that the claim which Jesus thus made must refer to a unity of sentiments and purpose - to a complete consecration of his powers his whole life - to the work with which he had been charged by the Father. That Jesus did con secrate his all to the accomplishment of his appointed work is openly manifest from the Gospel records; and that he was one with the Father in a far higher sense - in one vitally essential to the cause of human redemption from sin and its effects - is a proposition sustained by several circumstances connected with this case. This sense is one that holds him as uncontaminated by sin, and free from its power and curse, being therefore more than a mere mortal, however perfecta mortal may be, for all such creatures have sinned and come short of the glory of God (rom. 3. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.