Bible Review V15: October 1916 - March 1918 - Iapsop.com

Uhr' Glhristian illlgstrries
BY HENRY PROCTOR, F.
RV.
S. L., M. R. A. S.
O the true disciple of Jesus it is granted as a
special privilege to know
THE MYSTERIES OF THE KINGDOM
of the heavens. "I thank Thee, O Father,"
W says the Blessed Master, "that thou hast
hid these things from the wise and prudent, but hast revealed
them unto babes."
And turning to his disciples,
he says, "Blessed are your eyes, for they see and your
ears, for they hear. For many prophets and kings have
desired to see
the things which ye see, and have not
seen them, and to hear the things that ye hear and have
not heard them.
The parables of Our Lord are full of
mystery, as he says: "I will open my mouth in parables:
lwill utter things kept secret from the foundations of
the world." The Esoteric meaning of his discourses was
given to them in private, and there has always been an
inner circle to whom the mysteries were made known, as
the Apostle Paul, also says, "Howbeit we speak wisdom
among the teleioi or perfect ones, the wisdom of God
a mystery,
even the hidden wisdom which God foreordained
before the ages
UNTO OUR GLORY."
The greatest of all the mysteries seems to be that of the
incarnation of God in Christ-"God manifest in the
i1esh," and in the members of his Body: "Christ in you,
the hope of glory." Paul dwells much on the special
dispensation of the Mystery which was granted to him.
in