What this is we cannot tell you, nor can you conceive it: but walk heavenwards in purity, and long to be there, where you shall know what it means: 'for you shall know him as he is'.
We say; "Now I see the full meaning, force and beauty of a passage,--we see them through the words." Is not Christ the Word--the substantial, consubstantial Word, [Greek: ho on eis ton kolpon tou patros],--not as our words, arbitrary; nor even as the words of Nature phenomenal merely?
If even through the words a powerful and perspicuous author--( as in the next to inspired Commentary of Archbishop Leighton,--for whom God be praised!)--I identify myself with the excellent writer, and his thoughts become my thoughts: what must not the blessing be to be thus identified first with the Filial Word, and then with the Father in and through Him?
Ib.p.63.Serm.

V.
In this elementary world, light being (as we hear,) the first visible, all things are seen by it, and it by itself.

Thus is Christ, among spiritual things, in the elect world of his Church; all things are 'made manifest by the light', says the Apostle, 'Eph'.

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13, speaking of Christ as the following verse doth evidently testify.