Truth

1895

"Truth, like food, is valuable to men as they are prepared to digest and appropriate it. Only as they were able to bear it, did Christ reveal the truth to His disciples, and He distinctly declared that, 'He had many things to say to them, but they could not bear them now,' To the inner circle to whom it was given to know the mysteries of the kingdom, He uttered plainly what He could utter to others only in parables. He withheld His disciples from speaking of the truth which they were prepared to confess — namely, that He was the Christ of God — because there would come the puzzling and seemingly contradictory fact that He must be denied, betrayed and crucified. Till the crowning proofs of His divinity by the resurrection were in, the people were not ready to accept the truth which the disciples saw. Truth may as surely be damagingly misused as food may." — Christian Intelligencer (Baptist).