BOOK II. THE MENTAL CULTURE OF JESUS. HIS LIFE TO THE TIME OF HIS PUBLIC MINISTRY. CHAPTER I. JESUS NOT EDUCATED IN THE THEOLOGICAL SCHOOLS OF THE JEWS.

WE have already seen that in the early progress of the mind of Christ every thing was original and direct, and that external occasions were needed only to bring out his inward self-activity. As we must suppose that his developement was subsequently continued in the same way, we come at once to the conclusion that His education for a teacher was not due to any of the theological schools then existing in Judea. But we can reach this conclusion also by comparing the peculiar tendencies of those schools with the aims of Christ, with his mode of life and instruction, and with the spirit which he diffused around him.