Deliverance from the Cross — Page 20
but when applied to Jesus, by himself or by others, meant no more in his case than it means in its application to others in scripture, of which we have set out several instances above. He was son of God in that sense, in no wise at all God, the Son, the second person in the Trinity as it is now claimed. It is contended, however, that in the same context Jesus had also said: 'I and my Father are one' (John 10:30) and; 'the Father is in me, and I in him' (John 10:39); and that these affirmations lend support to the claim made on his behalf that he was not merely the son of God in the Biblical idiom, but had a relationship with God which elevated him to the Godhead and made him a partner and an associate with God on an equal footing. We shall now proceed to show that in the idiom of the Bible the expressions relied upon do not carry the matter any further and do not furnish the least evidence of the divinity of Jesus. For instance: At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you. ' John 14:20) That they all may be one; as Thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: That the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them, and thou in me, that they may 20