Excerpt from Studies of the Portrait of Christ, Vol. 2 Christianity. I have been for years persuaded, and with an ever-increasing conviction, that there is an element in Christ which is not to be explained by the stream of human heredity, but which implies an original Divine Sonship. But there is also confessedly that which was human - that which hungered, thirsted, hoped, feared, grew. I believe it grew into a pro gressive recognition of the steps of that redeeming work for the sake of which He was born, and which was already completed in the heart of the F ather - that work whose every step was an act in that great Death Sacrifice which reached from the depths of the Wilderness to the heights Of Calvary. The light which is a unity in the sky is given in fragments by the pool; even so on the waters of earth was the plan of the Fatker revealed in fragments. The aim of this book is to piece these fragments. I have alluded only to those incidents which bear on the development. For this reason I have paused at Calvary, which is professedly the development's close. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.