teaches, by bearing our sins can heal the sorrows of our hearts and our spiritual wounds, giving us salvation and place with God. Accordingly it is written concerning Him in the Psalms: 'The ¹ LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.' In the Book of Daniel ² the very time of the death of the Lord Jesus Christ is predicted.³ And in the Book of Isaiah it is said of Him: 'He ⁴ was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own ways; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all . . . . For the transgression of my people was he stricken . . . . He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; and he shall bear their iniquities . . . . He poured out his soul unto death, and was numbered. with the transgressors: yet he bare the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors.'

Every one who is acquainted with the four Gospels is aware how this prophecy was fulfilled in the death

and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. All the other passages which we have quoted are explained by the writers of the New Testament, writing with divine inspiration (الهام), as referring to Christ, and some He claims for Himself.

We now turn to the consideration of those passages in the Old Testament which show the Deity of the promised Messiah. Many such are found in the Book of the prophet Isaiah. For example, he describes a vision of the glory of God, which the New Testament refers to as a vision of the Lord Jesus Christ in His glory. 'In ¹ the year that king Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Above him stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of His glory . . . . Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.' In reference to this vision, St. John, having quoted two other passages from the Book of Isaiah, says that Isaiah 'saw ² his glory; and he spake of him', that is, of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now if the vision which Isaiah saw