I Cor. xv.); the, ideal, the perfect, the absolute man, the head of a new race, the king of Jews and Gentiles, the model man for universal imitation. While putting himself on a the par with us as man, he claims at the same time, as the Son of Man, superiority over all, and freedom from sin, and thus stands solitary and alone as the one and only spotless human being in the midst of a fallen race, as an oasis of living water and fresh verdure, surrounded by a barren desert. He nowhere confesses sin, betrays a consciousness of sin, or asks pardon for sin; and this was not because he did not feel the evil of sin, for he pardoned sin and condemned sins in the severest terms. He alone needed no repentance, no conversion, no regeneration, no pardon. This sinlessness of Christ is the great moral miracle of history which underlies all his miraculous works, and explains them as natural manifestations of his miraculous person.