Jesus the Christ

Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God. On the basis of this confession Peter was declared blessed by his Lord. For flesh and blood could not possibly have revealed this unto him, but only his Father Who is in heaven. Some years before this old Simeon gave up his vigil in the house of God, to die in peace, for when they brought the babe Jesus into the temple his age-bedimmed, yet Spirit-enlightened eyes beheld the Lord’s Christ. Simeon represented the hope of all the believers of the...