The Childhood of Jesus
The Gospel of James
Biographical Gospel of the Lord
- Chapter 162 -
James Explains A Passage From David
AFTER A WHILE Joseph went closer to James and asked him from whence such power in his breath came.
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And James answered, 'Dear father, I heard a voice within me which said to me:
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Breathe the blind man in the face, and he will be given perfect sight again!
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See, I steadfastly believed this voice within me, did according to its word, and the blind man sees!'
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Joseph asked, 'That is no doubt as you have spoken,
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but whence came the powerful voice within you? How did you hear it?'
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The questioned James replied: 'Dear father, do you not see Him upon my arms who now plays with my curls?
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I think He was the One who spoke this to me within me in such a wondrous way.'
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Joseph continued to inquire of James saying,
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'Do you really believe that the Baby is still the right one? Do you not think that He might have been interchanged on us?'
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And James answered, 'Who or what power can there be that is able to trade off the Almighty?
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The angels surely did always fall on their faces when the Baby spoke most marvelously - how then should they be able to act thus with Him, the Almighty?
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I therefore hold the Baby to be the original and genuine One just as surely and truly as I have never believed in an interchange of children!'
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Here Joseph said, 'My dear son, you have not given me a very firm proof of your faith here.
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See, thus speaks David himself, when he says: Why do the heathen rage, and the people speak a vain thing?
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The kings in the land rise up, and the lords counsel together against the Lord and His Anointed and say:
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Let us rend His bands and throw from us His cord!
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See, my son, the words are spiritual, and the kings are the powers, and the land is the great realm of the invisible powers! - But what do these have in mind? Of what do they speak?
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Is not the possibility indicated therein that they can also lay their hands on the Lord?'
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And James replied: 'Certainly, if the Lord should permit it.
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But it already states in the beginning of this song, asking: Why do the heathen rage, and why do the people speak a vain thing?
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Does not David actually wish to describe the impotence of such powers against the Lord?
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For it does emphatically say farther down: But He who lives in heaven laughs at them and derides them!
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He will speak to them one day in His anger, and with His wrath He will frighten them!
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Dear father, I would say these two stanzas of the great singer of God sufficiently justify my belief.
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For they are enough to tell me that the Lord always remains the Lord and no interchange can be carried out against Him!'
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Joseph was amazed at his son's wisdom and with his whole house again went back to the acceptance of the genuine Baby and honored and praised God therefor.