Q.—An evangelical clergyman was preaching in the open air and spoke of Jesus as pouring out His Godhead on the cross (“My God, my God, why” &c.). Surely that cannot be a right application of the scripture. X.Y.Z.
A —If the Evangelical said as is reported, he uttered folly; and if he understood his own words, he was heterodox. Probably he knew not what he said, carried away by the desire to make known the infinite humiliation of our Lord on the cross. But He emptied Himself of the glory proper to a divine Person; He could no more cease to be God, than we to be men; and had it been possible, it would have deprived both His life and death of that which makes each infinitely acceptable to God and efficacious for us.