When I speak of Jesus or any other character of Scripture, I am speaking of the personification of a principle, not of a person as you are or I am. The Bible records vision, and it makes no reference to persons or events which occurred on Earth.

Unfortunately, people have mistakenly taken personifications spoken of persons - the vehicle that conveyed the instruction for the instruction and the gross first sense - for the ultimate sense intended.

It is difficult to discuss a principle without personifying it and giving it words to speak. This is what evangelists have done; but to see Jesus as an historical character is to see truth tempered to the weakness of the human soul, unable to bear the strong light of revelation.