New Testament over the oldl 
Christ has come. " God so loved the world, that he gave his 
only begotten Son." This ought surely to make a great differ- 
ence between us and the Jews. But how? 

April ^%T. Gregory op Nyssa. 

I have found, in my reading to-day, the end of Eva's sentence 
 " God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, 
that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have ever- 
lasting life" 

How simple the words are !  " Believeth ;" that would mean, 
in any other book, " trusteth," " has reliance" in Christ;  ^simply 
to confide in him, and then receive his promise not to perish. 

But here  ^in this book, in theology  ^it is necessarily impossible 
that believing can mean anything so simple as that; because, at 
that rate, any one who merely came to the Lord Jesus Christ 
in confiding trust would have everlasting life, without any further 
conditions; and this is obviously out of the question. 

For what can be more simple than to confide in one worthy 
of confidence] and what can be greater than everlasting life! 

And yet we know, from all the teaching of the doctors and 
fathers of the Church, that nothing is more