self-sacrificed; and every man who is unfaithful to himself is not only at war
with the sum of things, but his own comrades turn upon him to destroy him,
to crush out his individuality and energy, to assimilate him to their own
pullulating mass. It is indeed the power of the Roman Empire which erects
the Cross on Calvary; but there must needs be Caiaphas and Herod, so blind
that they crush out their own one hope of salvation from that iron tyranny;
and also a traitor among those who once "left all and followed" the Son of
Man.
And who shall deny true Godhead to humanity, seeing that no generation
of mankind has been without a Saviour, conscious of his necessary doom,
and resolute to meet it, his face set as a flint towards Jerusalem? [263]