96 LT.-COL. MOLONY, O.B.E., LATE R.E., ON PREDICTIONS AND 



Jerome may testify that our Lord made yokes. Our Lord may 

 have done many things according to His choice, so the above is but 

 little to the point. I find there are those who ivould refuse to call 

 Him " the Carpenter's Son " or " the Carpenter of Nazareth," 

 but my sympathies are with those who go further and do not add to 

 His humiliation by calling the Lord of life and glory "a, or the 

 Carpenter." 



[Note by Editor. — It is not suggested that " a Carpenter " was 

 a special part of Christ's humiliation. It was a calling from which 

 Rabbis were chosen, and, we are told, was about equivalent then in 

 standing to a barrister to-day.] 



Mr. Sidney Collett said : The Rev. Gosset-Tanner and 

 Dr. Schofield have both somewhat anticipated much of what was 

 on my own mind in regard to this paper. But first of all I feel 

 I must raise my humble protest against an unfortunate expression 

 used by the lecturer on page 91, where he tells us : " Christ tried 

 to be a Teacher, Benefactor, Perfect Example and Saviour." 



Surely, as those who must ever desire to render due reverence 

 to the name of our Divine Lord, we could not allow such an 

 expression to pass unchallenged. Our Lord had no need to " try " 

 to be such. He was essentially a Teacher, Benefactor, Perfect 

 Example and Saviour ! 



Then, I feel compelled to say that, in my judgment, the great 

 weakness of the paper lies in the fact that the author has confused 

 two classes of prophecy which are quite distinct the one from the 

 other, viz., one class which speaks of Christ's first coming as a 

 Saviour to suffer ; and the other which tells of His second coming 

 as a King to reign. 



The lecturer appears to have taken several prophecies from both 

 these classes, and has applied them indiscriminately to Christ's 

 first coming ! 



For example, he has treated the 72nd Psalm in that way. Now 

 that whole Psalm is clearly millennial in character, when " all Kings 

 shall fail down before Him, and all Nations shall serve Him" (verse 11). 



And, although there was of necessity a kingly dignity attaching 

 to everything the Saviour said and did at His first coming, neverthe- 

 less such prophecies, if rightly understood, will be seen to refer not 

 to His first coming, but to His second coming. 



