This passage, we doubt not, speaks of the Lord Jesus Christ. The title "Potentate"

does not seem to be a fitting one for God the Father, for dynastes is used of the

Ethiopian eunuch who, though great authority, was nevertheless "under Candace" the

Queen (Acts 8: 27). The title, however, is appropriate to the Lord Jesus Christ while

the ages run their course. There is no need to prove that "King of kings" and "Lord of

lords" are the legitimate titles of Christ. There is, however, a difficulty at first when we

think of the Saviour "dwelling in light which no man can approach unto; Whom no man

hath seen, nor can see; to Whom be honour and power everlasting"; but when we

remember the effect of that glory upon Paul (Acts 9:), and John (Rev. 1:), we gain some

idea of the impossibility of any man "approaching unto" or "seeing" it until raised and

changed into the same glorious likeness.

Christ only hath immortality, for He only has been raised from the dead to die no

more. All others, like Lazarus, have been raised, but not "made alive". If this passage

speaks of the risen Christ therefore, we have an undivided witness, that "mortal" and

"immortal" have reference to the "flesh" and the "body", either in its present state or in

that of a glorious resurrection. Let us hold fast the form of sound words.