THE PROBLEM OF THE PERSON OF CHRIST 245 



writings in their original tongue." ^ " It is not 

 probable that He knew Greek." ^ Our problem 

 is this, How do we account for this man whose 

 whole education was derived from " nature smil- 

 ing and grand ; " who probably knew neither 

 Hebrew nor Greek, and yet who has taught 

 wisdom and religion to the highest and lowest 

 alike from His time until our own .'' He had a 

 spiritual insight of a finer and truer quality than 

 any other man of His race or of any other race, 

 so far as we know, ever possessed. He had an 

 unparalleled consciousness of God. Something 

 like that consciousness had been in others. Moses 

 is represented as having seen the divine glory in 

 the bush that burned but was not consumed ; 

 Isaiah said that he saw the Lord, and many 

 others had similar experiences ; but their visions, 

 or glimpses, or intuitions, were little like the sight 

 of Jesus, who seemed to live with God, whom 

 with perfect naturalness He called His Father. 

 The more carefully this fact is examined, the 

 more clearly it is seen to be without parallel. His 

 words concerning the Deity were evidently the 

 voice of personal experience. He speaks as one 

 who sees God, while others speak as those who 



1 Life of Jesus, Renan, p. 72. 



2 Ibid. p. 73. 



