it says that in a dream an angel told Joseph, who was betrothed to Mary,
that the child that had been conceived in her was from the Holy Spirit.
And Joseph did not have intercourse with her until she gave birth to a
Son and called his name Jesus (Matthew 1 : 20 , 25 ). The “Holy Spirit”
means the divine power that radiates from Jehovah God, as we will see in
the third chapter of this work [§§ 138 – 188 ].
Everyone knows that an offspring’s soul and life come from its
father, and the body comes from that soul. To state it very openly, then,
the Lord’s soul and life came from Jehovah God; and because divinity
cannot be divided, the Lord’s soul and life was the Father’s divinity itself.
This is why the Lord frequently called Jehovah God his Father, and
Jehovah God called the Lord his Son. What would be more absurd to
hear therefore than the idea that the soul of our Lord came from Mary
his mother? Yet this is the very thing that both Roman Catholics and
Protestants are dreaming today, and they have not been awakened by the
Word yet.
The idea that it was some eternally begotten Son who came down 83
and took on a human manifestation turns out to be utterly wrong, col-
lapses, and vanishes in the face of passages in the Word like the follow-
ing, where Jehovah himself says that he is the Savior and Redeemer:
Am not I Jehovah?And there is no other God except me. I am a just
God, and there is no Savior except me.(Isaiah 45 : 21 – 22 )
I am Jehovah, and there is no Savior except me.(Isaiah 43 : 11 )
I am Jehovah, your God,and you are not to acknowledge a God except
me. There is no Savior except me.(Hosea 13 : 4 )
So that all flesh may know that I, Jehovah, am your Savior and your
Redeemer.(Isaiah 49 : 26 ; 60 : 16 )
As for our Redeemer, Jehovah Sabaoth is his name.(Isaiah 47 : 4 )
Their Redeemer is strong; Jehovah Sabaoth is his name.(Jeremiah 50 : 34 )
Jehovah, my rock and my Redeemer. (Psalms 19 : 14 )
Thus says Jehovah, your Redeemer,the Holy One of Israel: “I am Jehovah,
your God.”(Isaiah 48 : 17 ; 43 : 14 ; 49 : 7 )
Thus said Jehovah, your Redeemer:“I, Jehovah,am the maker of all
things. I alone [stretch out the heavens. I extend the earth] by myself.”
(Isaiah 44 : 24 )§83 the lord the redeemer & redemption 119