The Golden Chain - Robert J. Wieland

desired; and although we had a limited amount, I
felt such pity for the parents, that I gave her a fine
apple. She snatched it from my hand, and
disdainfully threw it quickly to the car floor. I
thought, this child, if permitted to thus have her
own way, will indeed bring her mother to shame.
This exhibition of passion was the result of the
mother's course of indulgence (CD 240).
Of course, Christ never exhibited any such
exhibition of passion. He never "hankered after
sin" or "preferred the darkness to the light" as some
suggest the 1888 view asserts of our Lord (cf.
William Johnsson, op. cit., p. 104).
7. As "the second Adam, in purity and holiness
connected with God and beloved by God,
[Christ] began where the first Adam began,"
and willingly passing "over the ground where
Adam fell [He] redeemed Adam's failure" (cf.
YI, June 2, 1898). What does this mean?
Let us ask: Did Christ redeem only Adam's
failure? Did he end His atonement where He began
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