Collier's New Encyclopedia

A complete general encyclopedia of 1921 — the world as it was understood just after the Great War, from Aachen to Zwingli, across twelve volumes and six thousand pages.

HomeJ › Jesus (Name miraculously given)

Jesus (Name miraculously given)

the name miraculously given conceived by the Holy Ghost. An angel who appeared to Joseph, Mary's bethat son on shall save his people from their sins."

His birth should be called Jesus, "for He Some persons suppose that when Christ is superadded, Jesus is analogous to what now would be called the Christian name, while Christ is the This This view is erroneous. The only pername is Jesus, and Christ is the designation of office or mission, indicating that the being who bore it claimed to be the Messiah ers. Nearly all the churches of the to be the Messiah promised to the fathworld, the Unitarian one being the chief ers. Nearly all the churches of the exception, recognize a divine and human respect to the former as the Second Pernature in Christ, regarding Him with with regard to the latter, as the perfect son of the Trinity and the Son of God; that has lived on earth. The birth of type of humanity, the only sinless man the Saviour is generally believed to have been in 4 B. C., the commencement of His ministry A. D. 26, and His crucifixion A. D. 29. the apocryphal book called Ecclesiasti-

← JesupJesus College →