154 TJiis is what is revealed. CHAP. 



Of course I do not mean that any man, without 

 the Prophetic Spirit of God, could have thought out all 

 this for himself. But when it has been revealed, we 

 can see that it is consistent with the highest ideas 

 which we can form of God. Now, this is what we 

 actually find ; this is what is actually revealed : 

 except only, that the revelation of final mercy to all 

 is very much clearer and more definite than we could 

 have dared to hope. 1 As the privileges of the elect 

 race of Abraham have been merged in those of the 

 elect Church of Christ, so shall these, in their turn, 

 be merged in the ultimate salvation of all. 



1 See especially the quotations from the New Testament in 

 the chapter on the Final Destiny of the Rejected. 



NOTE TO CHAPTER VIII. 



SAINT IGNATIUS ON THE LETTER AND THE SPIRIT. 



The following, from one of the Epistles of 

 Ignatius to the Philadelphians, as quoted from 

 Lightfoot's Apostolic Fathers in Bishop Alexander's 

 Leading Ideas of the Gospels, p. 21, clearly asserts the 

 right of the believer in Christ to go beyond the 

 mere letter, and to read between the lines of Holy 

 Scripture. The translation which I offer is some- 

 what closer to the Greek than Bishop Alexander's. 



