ABSTRACT
This chapter considers three principal subjects, which falls accordingly into three principal clauses—the divinity and eternal generation of the son, the Incarnation, and the atonement. In considering the evidence for the Divinity of our Lord the first place must always be given to His own words and claims. Although, as Bishop Westcott says, “He never speaks of Himself directly as God,” yet “the aim of His revelation was to lead men to see God in Him.” The Atonement revealed God’s love, and so influenced men, but it had no “objective” value. Such an objection at first sight may appear to be plausible. The Atonement has sometimes been represented as if it involved a discordance of will between the First and Second Persons of the blessed Trinity. The great dogmatic passages in the Pauline Epistles in which the person and nature of Christ are fully dwelt upon.
