vi Christ the Saviour of All. 95 



only resistless power ; but we are here told that it 

 is the same working whereby He will glorify our 

 present mortality, which is sown in dishonour, to be 

 raised in glory ; sown in weakness, to be raised in 

 power. 1 This is not wrought by mere Omnipotence ; 

 it has pleased God to work it by that "strength 

 made perfect in weakness" which condescended to 

 the Cross : and Saint Paul elsewhere tells us that if 

 we are united with Christ in resurrection, it is 

 because we have been united with Him in death. 2 

 Compare Christ's saying : "I, if I be lifted up from 

 the earth, will draw all men unto myself. This 

 He said, signifying by what death He should die." 3 

 It must be for salvation that Christ thus designed to 

 draw all men unto Himself ; He had no need to be 

 lifted up on a cross in order to force them to Himself 

 for judgment. 



The next quotation is from one of Saint Paul's 

 latest writings : " We have our hope set on the 

 living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially 

 of them that believe." 4 This is rather strangely 

 expressed, but it appears to declare that the condem- 

 nation of those who do not believe is not absolute or 

 final. It is the same teaching as that of the classical 

 passage : all shall be saved and made alive, but not 

 all at first "each in his own order." Compare the 

 words of Christ to Nicodemus : "God so loved the 

 world 'that He gave his only begotten Son, that 



1 1 Cor. xv. 43. 2 Rom. vi. 5, 8. 



3 John xii. 32, 33. 4 1 Tim. iv. 10. 



