ABSTRACT
When we speak of being Christlike, we are inclined to take far too limited a view of what Christ was like. In popular language the term means chiefly gentleness, patience, readiness to forgive. It is the “ gentle Jesus, meek and mild,” of our childhood that is set before us for imitation. Or possibly attention fixes on Christ’s complete triumph over the sins of the flesh, and Christlikeness stands for purity. And that is a most valuable interpretation ; “ everyone that has the hope set on him purifies himself even as he is pure.” 1 But these particular phases and characteristics hardly bring out what is most distinctive of Christ, and therefore they leave the idea of Christlikeness partial and fragmentary.
