only Prophet whom Moses sees in the future is brought into his field of vision by his likeness to himself. Any child in a Sunday school, if asked what it knew about Moses, would answer that he brought the children of Israel out of Egypt. No one would question that this was the distinctive fact regarding him, and therefore if we are to find a Prophet of the same type as Moses, we should expect to find in him the founder of a New Nationality of the same order as that founded by Moses --- that is to say, a nationality subsisting independently of time and place and cohering by reason of its recognition of an Eternal Ideal.

I AM ~ Therefore WE ARE

To make Jesus a Prophet like unto Moses, he must in some way repeat the Exodus and re-establish "the people of the I AM". Now turning to the teaching of Jesus, we find that this is exactly what he did. There was nothing on which he laid greater stress than the I AM. "Except ye believe that I AM, ye shall perish in your sins" was the emphatic summary of his whole teaching. And here read carefully. Distinguish between what Jesus said and what the translators of our English Bible say that he said, for it makes all the difference. Our English version runs, "If ye believe not that I am He, ye shall die in your sins" (John 8:24), thus, by the introduction of a single word, assuming all sorts of theological doctrines having their origin in Persian and Neoplatonic