Excerpt from Fitness of Christianity to Man The point, dropping out of account here any difference between the Hebrew and the Greek dress of the thought, is, that in the universe, or Whole reality of things, the two spheres, natural and supernatural, are equally real; in both of them there is life; they Open into one another; life passes, in persons, from one to the other both are for men; and the one living bond of unity, whose life and light are common to both alike is The Word Whether in the Jewish mind, which was not metaphysical, or in Gnostic speculation, Wisdom corresponded best with the second or third person in the Christian Trinity is not material. The Wisdom of God coming down to the earth is a divine Man, seen by St. John, -the man of men, who raises humanity to heaven. The more we think this thought, and trace it through its relations, the more we shall find it to signify the faith that was once delivered to the saints. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.