“They take inadequate views of Christ's prophetic character, who think Jesus came only to utter discourses, parables, and prayers. Suppose all He ever said to be found in the writings of Jewish rabbis and heathen philosophers, His great function would still be an orginal one, to show us the Father.”

— Edward Thomson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 65.

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