THE INCARNATION is a soul that lacks the Supernatural Life: sin i$ removed by the pouring into the soul of that life — as darkness is removed by the turning on of the light. So far, then, for the first part of Christ’s mission : He had reconciled the human race to God : He had brought back the rich store of Supernatural Life. CHRIST AS TEACHER There remains to be considered the other need of man — Truth. As we have seen this involves as a minimum that man shall be taught the purpose of his existence and the laws by which he must live. Christ taught this necessary minimum — ^ and much more. The laws will be discussed in detail in Chapters IX and X: here notice only two things : (a) He took the ten commandments given to the chosen people of Israel by God some fifteen hundred years before — most of them beginning with “Thou shalt not” and summed them up into two, both beginning “Thou shalt ” : for the first three commandments, which set out our duty to God, He expressed concisely as “Thou shalt love God ” ; and the remaining seven, which set out our duty to our neighbour, He expressed equally concisely as “Thou shalt love thy neighbour.” In other words, all the commandments lie implicit in this twofold love; {b) Just as the commandments are summarized and made positive, so they are traced back from 51