But such a man cannot come of any parentage; he must be the "Son of David"; and it was to test their knowledge in this respect that the Master posed the carping scribes with the question as to how the Son of David could also be his Lord (Matt. 22:43-46). As rulers in Israel, they should have known these things and instructed the people in them, but they would not come, as did Nicodemus (John 3:1-2), to him who would teach them; and so, like Hiram (1 Kings 5), the architect of Solomon's Temple, the Master was murdered by those who should have been his scholars and helpers.

Love

The Builder of the Temple, then, must be "the Son of David"; and again we find that much of the significance of this saying is concealed in the names. David is the English form of the Oriental "Daud", which means "Beloved", and the Builder is therefore the Son of the Beloved. David is called in Scripture "the man after God's own heart", a description exactly answering to the name; and we therefore find that Solomon the Builder is the son of the man who has entered into that reciprocal relation with "God", or the Universal Spirit, which can only be described as Love. To define what is primarily feeling is to attempt the impossible; but the essence of the feeling consists in the recognition of such a reciprocity of nature that each supplies what the other wants, and that neither is complete without the other. In the last