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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: prophets with their divine revelations, and finally reveals
himself to mankind in the person of Christ. Yet Justin sedulously
guards himself against ditheism, insisting frequently and
emphatically upon the immeasurable inferiority of the Logos as
compared with the actual God (gr o ontws qeos).
We have here reached very nearly the ultimate phase of New
Testament speculation concerning Jesus. The doctrines enunciated
by Justin became eventually, with slight modification, the
official doctrines of the Church; yet before they could thus be
received, some further elaboration was needed. The pre-existing
Logos-Christ of Justin was no longer the human Messiah of the
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