shall have the light of life' (John viii. 12). And again, 'I am the living bread which came down out of heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: yea and the bread which I will give is my flesh, for the life of the world . . . . He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood abideth in me, and I in him. As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he that eateth me, he also shall live because of me' (John vi. 51, 54-7). So likewise St. Paul writes, in 1 Tim. ii. 5-6, 'For there is one God, one mediator also between God and men, himself man, Christ Jesus, who gave himself a ransom for all; the testimony to be borne in its own times.' And again, in 2 Cor. v. 17-19, 'Wherefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new. But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and gave unto us the ministry of reconciliation; to wit, that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself, not reckoning unto them their trespasses, and having committed unto us the word of reconciliation.' And St. Peter testified of Him to the Jews, saying, 'He is the stone which was set at nought of you the builders, which was made the head of the corner. And in none

other is there salvation: for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, wherein we must be saved' (Acts iv. 11-12).

By the side of such declarations as these, it is indeed natural to find prophecies like that in Matt. xxiv. 11, 'Many false prophets shall arise, and shall lead many astray'; but it would be impossible to imagine any messenger who could do, or be, more for us than is here predicted of Christ. For the Son Himself having come and made known the Father, it is self-evident that higher revelation by a mere servant is for ever superseded. It is because Jesus Christ is revealed in the gospel as the spiritual sun, or the light of the world, and as the only Saviour of mankind, that no other new revelation can be expected after Him, and that the whole Christian dispensation, or the period from Christ's life upon earth to His coming again to judgement, is called 'the last time', or 'the last days', and 'the end of the world'. So we read in 1 Cor. x. 11, 'Now these things . . . were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come,' and in 1 John ii. 18, 'Little children, it is the last hour: and as ye heard that antichrist cometh, even now have there arisen many antichrists;' and in Heb. i. 1, 2, 'God, having of old time spoken unto the fathers in the prophets by divers portions and in divers manners, hath at the end of these days spoken unto us in his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through