Should I have any "orthodox" reader, my arguments may shock his feelings less, if he keeps this in view.

In fact, the same action or word in Jesus may be consistent or inconsistent with moral perfection, according to the previous assumptions concerning his person.
I.My friend has attributed to me a "prosaic and embittered view of human nature," apparently because I have a very intense belief of Man's essential imperfection.

To me, I confess, it is almost a first principle of thought, that as all sorts of perfection coexist in God, so is no sort of perfection possible to man.

I do not know how for a moment to imagine an Omniscient Being who is not Almighty, or an Almighty who is not All-Righteous.

So neither do I know how to conceive of Perfect Holiness anywhere but in the Blessed and only Potentate.
Man is finite and crippled on all sides; and frailty in one kind causes frailty in another.