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do this is not explained. Alas, man has been given freedom and free will; he has been left to his own devices and to do with his life as he pleases. Therefore he must suffer the consequences not only of his own acts but of the acts of others. We are indebted to Dr. Coodspeed American historian (and others before him) for pointing out to us that Jesus was speaking the words of his forefather David. And no one knew the scriptures better than Jesus. They are the words of the twenty-second Psalm, which begins: My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me? Why art thou so far from helping me, from the words of my groaning? This remarkable prophecy, which may have been written, not in David's time but during the deportation nearly 600 years before Jesus, gives a complete picture of the man on the cross and ends: Posterity shall serve him; men shall tell of the Lord to the coming generation, and proclaim his deliverance to a people yet unborn, that he has wrought it. Thus was it seen that while Jesus was a son of David, he was yet his Lord. Indeed, there were three occasions when Jesus identified himself for posterity, as well as to his own people. The first was in Nazareth, when he quoted Isaiah: The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has appointed me to preach good news to the poor. . . 5 The second was at the hour of his trial in Jerusalem, when he referred to Daniel: and behold with the clouds of heaven, there 5 Luke 4:18. 163