Section 7
more than twenty-five years. If you go to the Christian bookstores, you will not find even one book that speaks about mingling. The most that the books speak of is union with Christ or iden tification with Him. Not one book discusses this matter of mingling. In 1958, when I first visited this country, I delivered a message on the mingling of the divine life with humanity. A preacher, a graduate of Oxford, immediately corrected my English, saying that mingling was not the right word and that I should use the word "co-mingling." I replied, "Whether this word is the right English word or not I am not sure because English is not my mother tongue, but I do know that there is such a fact between the divine life and humanity." Later, I received a confirmation from the book of Leviticus that the word was the right word.
The word mingling is used in Leviticus 2:5. "And if thy oblation be a meat offering baken in a pan, it shall be of fine flour unleavened, min gled with oil." This is a type. The fine flour typi fies the humanity of the Lord Jesus, and the oil typifies the Holy Spirit, the divinity of the Lord Jesus. Therefore, in the Person of the Lord Jesus there is the mingling of divinity with humanity. Thus, when I visited this country the second