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This chapter #3 is comprised of 90 questions and answers.

  	    Why did Jesus call himself "the Son of man"? 

21	    In the life of our Lord, meekness was as conspicuous
  	as might. In John xvii. he declared his sonship with
  	God: "These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his
24	eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come;
  	glorify Thy Son, that Thy Son also may glorify Thee." 
  	The hour had come for the avowal of this great truth,
27	and for the proof of his eternal Life and sonship. Jesus'

  	¹Quoted from the sixteenth edition.

  Miscellaneous Writings --- Questions and Answers                      
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 1	wisdom ofttimes was shown by his forbearing to speak,
  	as well as by speaking, the whole truth. Haply he waited
 3	for a preparation of the human heart to receive start-
  	ling announcements. This wisdom, which character-
  	ized his sayings, did not prophesy his death, and thereby
 6	hasten or permit it. 
  	    The disciples and prophets thrust disputed points on
  	minds unprepared for them. This cost them their lives,
 9	and the world's temporary esteem; but the prophecies
  	were fulfilled, and their motives were rewarded by
  	growth and more spiritual understanding, which dawns
12	by degrees on mortals. The spiritual Christ was infal-
  	lible; Jesus, as material manhood, was not Christ. The
  	"man of sorrows" knew that the man of joys, his spiritual
15	self, or Christ, was the Son of God; and that the mor-
  	tal mind, not the immortal Mind, suffered. The human
  	manifestation of the S...on of God was called the Son of
18	man, or Mary's son. 
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