52. What text of Scripture may be presented as the most definite and powerful assertion of the Diety of Christ?

In John 10:30 Christ says: "I and my Father are one." This is his own unqualified assertion of his oneness with the Father.

He also prayed to the Father in these words: "And now, 0 Father, glorify thou me with thine ownself with the glory which I had with thee before the world was" (John 17:5).

St. John, in his Gospel, opens his record of Christ with words used by Moses in introducing God upon the scene. "In the beginning God," says Moses.

"In the beginning was the Word," says John, and adds: "And the Word was with God, and the Word was God." We identify this Word as Christ as we read John 1:14: "And the Word was made flesh."

The writer of the Epistle to the Hebrews de­clares that God made the worlds through his Son and that to the Son he saith: "Thy throne, 0 God, is for ever and ever."

And again: "Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth and the heavens are the work of thy hands." Paul, in writing to the Romans, speaks of Christ, "who is over all. God blessed forever."