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How amazing the contrast between "I am the True Vine," "I am the Living Bread," "I am the Good Shepherd," "Before Abraham was, I am," of the Gospel, and "I am a worm, and no man" of the Psalm. Yet, as we well know, the 22nd Psalm applies to One only, in any adequate sense, even to Him, Who so absolutely asserts His majestic claims in the pages of St. John. We can only take in a little of what the contrast conveys, but we know that it is because our Lord was, is, the great “I am," that He deigned to become "a worm and no man." On earth He was truly as an eloquent medieval writer puts it, "the holiest among the mighty, and the mightiest among the holy." But there, and as such He abode alone. So He stooped to an ignominious death "for us even, and for our salvation.”