Jesus, Divine and Human.
By M. W. Howard
It is written of the “Captain of our salvation,” that “he was made perfect through suffering;” also, that he “hath suffered being tempted,” that he might be “able to succor them that are tempted.” Heb. 2: 18. To Jesus we award all knowledge, and in this we do well; yet may we not, in our zeal for the divine Jesus, be liable to forget the human? He “was tempted in all points like as we are;” this is the human; but it is added, “Yet without sin.” Here comes in the divine. Wherever we see him, the divine and human are so intimately blended that we fail to detect the dividing point. As a man, his knowledge of the workings of mankind came to him; as to ourselves, by their developments; yet it is written that he “needed not that any should testify of man; for he knew what was in man;” and of this he often gave abundant proof, in his intercourse with mankind. M. W. HOWARD.