This passage I only vaguely understood. For I started with the preconception that the spirit or breath or wind, must be only another metaphor—like “word”—to describe a “fragment” of God (as Epictetus called the Logos in man). I did not as yet understand that this Spirit might be regarded as, at one and the same moment, in heaven with God and on earth with men, representing the love and will of God to man below, and the love and prayers of man to God above. Still I perceived that in some way it was connected with the Christian Christ; and that the Father and the Spirit and Christ were in some permanent relation to each other and to man, by which relation man and God were drawn together. And this led me back again to the words, “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?” and “We are more than conquerors through Him that loved us.” Comparing this “love” with the friendship felt by the Epictetian Diogenes for the whole human race, I found the latter thin and poor. The Greek philosopher, being a “friend” of the Father of Gods and men, seemed to me to be friendly to men in the region (so to speak) of the Logos, “because”—I was disposed to add—“the Logos within him, in a ‘logical’ way, commanded him to be friendly to them, for consistency’s sake, as being ‘logically’ akin to him.” Perhaps some reaction against the constant inculcation of loyalty to the Logos during the last few weeks led me to be a little unfair to the Epictetian ideal. But, fair or unfair, these were my thoughts at the moment, while I was turning over the letters addressed by this wandering Jewish Diogenes to some of the principal cities of Greece and Asia, coming every now and then on such sentences as these: “_I have strength for all things in Him that giveth me inward power_”: “_Being made powerful with all power, in accordance with the might of His glory, so that we rejoice in endurance and longsuffering, being thankful to the Father_”: “_Be ye made powerful in the Lord and in the might of His strength._” Here I noted that he did not say (as Epictetus did) “take power from yourselves.” Moreover Paul added “_Put on the panoply of God._” Then I turned back again to the Roman and Corinthian letters; and still the same thoughts and phrases met me, about “_power_” in various contexts, such as “_demonstration of Spirit and power_,” and “_abounding in hope through the power of the Holy Spirit_.” “_Love_,” too, was represented as an irresistible power. “_The love of Christ constraineth us_,” he said. And then he added, “_One died for all_” and “_He died for all, that the living should be living no longer to themselves, but to Him that for their sake died and was raised up from death._”