A MAP OF LIFE can only give us Himself, for He is both. This point must be insisted on, not as a figure of speech, but a strict fact. It is a map we are making, not a poem ; and what is now being said, mysterious as it is, is strictly and literally true. Our study of the road of life has brought us to an examination of truth and life: we cannot understand the road if we do not understand them. But if Christ is the truth, then we must understand Him : if He is the life, then He must live in us. Obviously, then, our map-making cannot progress till we are clear about Who and what Christ is, because the road we are to travel depends even more on what He is than on what He did. THE TWO NATURES OF CHRIST Christ is God-made-man: that is He is truly God and He is truly man. He is God — with the nature of God: He took to Himself and made His own a complete human nature — a real human body and a real human soul. He is, then, one person — God — with two natures — divine and human. Nor is all this mere abstract matter, of no real concern to us. Everything in our life is bound up with the one person and the two natures of Christ. We must grasp this central luminous fact, or everything remains in darkness. ' The distinction between person and nature is not some deep and hidden thing to which philosophy 46