Jesus Christ Himself, as we have already seen. Even in the passages which we have adduced to prove Christ's perfect humanity, therefore, we find proofs of His Deity also. But we proceed to show that the titles of Son of God, Lord (الرّبّ), and God, are also given to Him by this Apostle St. Paul, as well as by the other Apostles, so that in this matter again there is perfect harmony in the teaching which they all alike gave through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit of God.

The Deity of the Lord Jesus Christ is clearly taught in such passages as the following: 'God ¹ was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself.' 'Have ² this mind in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: who, being in the form of God, counted it not a prize to be on an equality with God, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men; and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, becoming obedient even unto death, yea, the death of the cross. Wherefore also God highly exalted him, and gave unto him the name which is above every name; that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven and things on earth and things under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.'

In this passage it is necessary to call our readers' attention to the fact that the Deity of Christ is here taught again and again in one way after another. The expression 'being in the form of God' means being in His very nature God, just as 'taking the form of a servant' means becoming a real man. The 'equality with God' the Father states the same thing. 'The name which is above every name' is the incommunicable Name of God (יהוה) in the Old Testament, which the Hebrews consider to be too sacred to be pronounced. In reading the Old Testament in Hebrew, therefore, wherever this Most holy Name occurs they pronounce ¹ instead a word which means Lord الرّبّ אֲרונָי). Hence the expression 'Jesus Christ is Lord',² means once more that Jesus Christ is the owner of this most holy and incommunicable name, that is to say, that He is God Most High. The Apostle also tells us that all the angels ³ and archangels, prophets, apostles, and all men alive and dead, must finally, according to God the Father's promise, bow the knee to Christ and with their tongues confess His Deity.

In another passage it is written that the Gospel of God (بشارة الله) has as its subject 'his ⁴ Son, who