and with their Brother they shall rise again.

So, again, most strikingly, and yet somewhat singularly, in the words
of Scripture which paint most loftily the exaltation of the risen
Saviour to the right hand of God, and His wielding of absolute power
and authority, it is the old human name that is used; as if the
writers would bind together the humiliation and the exaltation, and
were holding up hands of wonder at the thought that a Man had risen
thus to the Throne of the Universe. What an emphasis and glow of hope
there is in such words as these: 'We see not yet all things put under
Him, but we see _Jesus_'--the very Man that was here with us--
'crowned with glory and honour.' So in the Book of the Revelation the
chosen name for Him who sits amidst the glories of the heavens, and
settles the destinies of the universe, and orders the course of
history, is Jesus. As if the Apostle would assure us that the face
which looked down upon him from amidst the blaze of the glory was
indeed the face that he knew long ago upon earth, and the breast that
'was girded with a golden girdle' was the breast upon which he so
often had leaned his happy head.

So the ties that bind us to the Man Jesus should be the human bonds
that knit us to one another, transferred to Him and purified and
strengthened. All that we have failed to find in men we can find in
Him. Human wisdom has its limits, but here is a Man whose word is
truth, who is Himself the truth. Human love is sometimes hollow,
often impotent; it looks down upon us, as a great thinker has said,
like the Venus of Milo, that lovely statue, smiling in pity, but it
has no arms. But here is a love that is mighty to help, and on which
we can rely without disappointment or loss. Human excellence is
always limited and imperfect, but here is One whom we may imitate and