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CHAPTER I THE INNER WAY
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Every scrap2 of writing that sheds any light on the life of Jesus, and every incident that gives the least detail about His movements or His teaching are precious to us. One can hardly conceive the joy and enthusiasm that would burst forth3 in all lands, if new fragments of papyrus4 or of parchment could be unearthed5 that would add in any measure to our knowledge of the way this Galilean life was lived “beneath the Syrian blue.” But it may now probably be taken for granted that the material will never be forthcoming—and it surely is not now in hand—for an adequate biography of[2] Him. The lives of Jesus that have been written in modern times have a certain value, as suggestive revelations of what the writers thought He ought to have been or ought to have done, but biographies, in the true sense of the word, they are not. The Evangelists performed for us an inestimable service, but they did not furnish us the sort of data necessary for a detailed6 biography, expressed in clock-time language.
Our “sources” are much more adequate when we turn our attention from external events to the inner way which His life reveals, though they still allow for free play of imagination and for much fluidity of subjective7 interpretation8. It is possible, however, I believe, to look through the genuine words that are preserved and to see, with clairvoyant9 insight, the inner kingdom of the soul in that Person whose interior life was the richest of all those who have walked our earth. There are curious little playthings to be bought in Rome. If one looks through a pin-hole[3] peep somewhere in one of these tiny toys, one sees to his surprise the whole
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genetic
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hatred
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heresy
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