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speech employed in them. There are two reasons for this: . (1) Jesus himself has given gloss to to the term "Son of God. " In the light of this interpretation he excels in rank no other prophet. He turns out in fact as being somewhat less distinguished than some of the prophets. Thus it is written: "I and the father are one. The Jews took up stones again to stone him. Jesus answered, "I have shown you many good works from the Father%; for which of these do you stone me ?" The Jews answered, "We stone you for no good work but for blasphemy; because you, being a man make yourself God. " Jesus answered them "Is it not written in your law, 'I said you are gods'? If he called them gods to whom the word of God came (and. Scripture cannot be broken), do you say of him whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming' because I said, 'I am the Son of God"?” (Jn. 10 30 - 36). . It is abundantly clear that the Jews looked upon Jesus as a man who blasphemed by posing as God. Had Jesus in fact been God he would have been forthright enough to claim this without any explanation. What he answered was that to prophets and saints of the past it was said, "You are gods", therefore, there was no harm for him to make known that he was 'Son of God' i. e. in the sense in 21