Plato yearned after some superhuman being to come and enlighten and raise up the fallen race. But when the Father sent the Son, and (wondrous condescension!) in the reality of man while most truly God, hatred of good came out as it never did nor could before; and they rejected Him alike in His words and His works. It mattered not that these all were light and love, as He was. But they, brought God in Christ's Person the Holy and the True; and man would have none of Him—neither religious man, nor philosophical, nor political—Jew, Greek, Roman, despised and abhorred Him. As it was written beforehand, they hated Him without a cause, even those that had His law; they hated both the Son and the Father.
This is the world, and the great standing proof is the cross of Christ. Hence, our Lord, looking on to it, declared His own not to be of the world, as He is not—not merely that they ought not to be, but that they are not. And the epistles follow this up, when the Holy Spirit was given, with the utmost care for corresponding ways. Nor is there anything in which Christendom is more false and guilty than in seeking and courting it, and congratulating itself on possessing its countenance and its good things, if it has them, or in coveting them when it has not
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