1 50 Some Implications of the Incarnation [CH. iv 



others, for perfect freedom is perfect service; the per- 

 fection of human freedom is the perfection of human 

 service; and service is self-limitation. Of His own will 

 He took upon Himself the burden of fallen manhood, 

 through the penetrability of personal being, and ex- 

 perienced its isolation. He was Man; He identified 

 Himself with "fallen" manhood. But He Himself was 

 perfect man, without the race-disability of manhood. 

 Otherwise He could not have brought about atonement, 

 for His Being would not have been as perfectly pene- 

 trable as is possible for manhood ; He could never have 

 drawn the whole world into the love of the Father. 



(2) In His manhood it is doubtful if He could have 

 any memory of Transcendent Godhead, for if He had 

 He would not have been truly man. Those words of His 

 which seem to point to such a memory are probably to 

 be interpreted rather in the light of the intuitive know- 

 ledge of union with God that every saint possesses at 

 times and in some degree. They represent the experi- 

 ence which makes His teaching that the Kingdom of 

 Heaven is within us, and that we are even here and 

 now in eternal life, awaken in the heart an answering 

 certainty that nothing can shake. 



NOTE. On p. 136 we quoted Jn i. 3 in its usual form. If we 

 accept the suggested emendation and read oi/St Iv. 8 ytyovtv tv 

 oflT<j5 furfj fiv, -our immediate contention is unaffected, while our 

 general discussion of the perpetual mediatorial activity of the 

 Son receives illumination and fresh cogency. 



