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How Christians are the Spiritual Israel.

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The 144,000 Sealed in the Apocalypse are Converts to Christ from the Gentile World.

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In the Spiritual Israel the High-Priests are Those Who Devote Themselves to the Study of Scripture.

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The Study of the Gospels is the First Fruits Offered by These Priests of Christianity.

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All Scripture is Gospel; But the Gospels are Distinguished Above Other Scriptures.

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The Fourfold Gospel.  John's the First Fruits of the Four.  Qualifications Necessary for Interpreting It.

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What Good Things are Announced in the Gospels.

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How the Gospels Cause the Other Books of Scripture Also to Be Gospel.

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The Somatic and the Spiritual Gospel.

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How Jesus Himself is the Gospel.

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Jesus is All Good Things; Hence the Gospel is Manifold.

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The Gospel Contains the Ill Deeds Also Which Were Done to Jesus.

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The Angels Also are Evangelists.

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The Old Testament, Typified by John, is the Beginning of the Gospel.

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The Gospel is in the Old Testament, and Indeed in the Whole Universe.  Prayer for Aid to Understand the Mystical Sense of the Work in Hand.

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Meaning of “Beginning.”  (1) in Space.

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(2) in Time.  The Beginning of Creation.

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(3) of Substance.

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(4) of Type and Copy.

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(5) of Elements and What is Formed from Them.

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(6) of Design and Execution.

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The Word Was in the Beginning, I.e., in Wisdom, Which Contained All Things in Idea, Before They Existed.  Christ's Character as Wisdom is Prior to His Other Characters.

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The Title “Word” Is to Be Interpreted by the Same Method as the Other Titles of Christ.  The Word of God is Not a Mere Attribute of God, But a Separate Person.  What is Meant When He is Called the Word.

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Christ as Light; How He, and How His Disciples are the Light of the World.

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Christ as the Resurrection.

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Christ as the Way.

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Christ as the Truth.

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Christ as Life.

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Christ as the Door and as the Shepherd.

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Christ as Anointed (Christ) and as King.

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Christ as Teacher and Master.

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Christ as Son.

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Christ the True Vine, and as Bread.

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Christ as the First and the Last; He is Also What Lies Between These.

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Christ as the Living and the Dead.

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Christ as a Sword.

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Christ as a Servant, as the Lamb of God, and as the Man Whom John Did Not Know.

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Christ as Paraclete, as Propitiation, and as the Power of God.

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Christ as Wisdom and Sanctification and Redemption.

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Christ as Righteousness; As the Demiurge, the Agent of the Good God, and as High-Priest.

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Christ as the Rod, the Flower, the Stone.

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Of the Various Ways in Which Christ is the Logos.

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