WHEN the arguments against the actual sinlessness of Jesus, taken from matters of fact, are found to be inadequate, the possibility of sinlessness in the domain of human life may still be called in question. For if, indeed, such perfection were intrinsically impossible to human nature, it could not have been realized in the Lord Jesus, in so far as He shared that nature. Such an impossibility has been asserted, and reasons have been urged in support of it, which are partly drawn from experience, and partly from the nature of the moral idea, and the mode of its realization. The examination of the reasons of both kinds thus brought forward, is now, therefore, incumbent on us.