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We have also read the words, [4557] "I am the true vine and My Father is the husbandman," and again, "I am the vine, ye are the branches." Add to these testimonies also the saying, [4558] "I am the bread of life, that came down from heaven and giveth life to the world." These texts will suffice for the present, which we have picked up out of the storehouse of the Gospels, and in all of which He claims to be the Son of God. But in the Apocalypse of John, too, He says, [4559] "I am the first and the last, and the living One, and I was dead. Behold, I am alive for evermore." And again, [4560] "I am the A and the O, and the first and the last, the beginning and the end." The careful student of the sacred books, moreover, may gather not a few similar passages from the prophets, as where He calls Himself [4561] a chosen shaft, and a servant of God, [4562] and a light of the Gentiles. [4563] Isaiah also says, [4564] "From my mother's womb hath He called me by my name, and He made my mouth as a sharp sword, and under the shadow of His hand did He hide me, and He said to me, Thou art My servant, O Israel, and in thee will I be glorified." And a little farther on: "And my God shall be my strength, and He said to me, This is a great thing for thee to be called My servant, to set up the tribes of Jacob and to turn again the diaspora of Israel. Behold I have set thee for a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation to the end of the earth." And in Jeremiah too [4565] He likens Himself to a lamb, as thus: "I was as a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter."

[4557] John xv. 1, 5.

[4558] John vi. 35, 41, 33.

[4559] Apoc. i. 18.

[4560] Apoc. xxii. 13.

[4561] Isa. xlix. 2.

[4562] Isa. xlii. 1, etc.

[4563] Isa. xlix. 6.

[4564] Isa. xlix. 1, 2, 3.

[4565] Jerem. xi. 19.
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