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The Author of the Epistle to the Hebrews calls him (Christ) [Greek: apaugasma], 'the brightness of his Father's glory, and the character of his person', (i.

3.) And under these expressions lies that remarkable mystery of the Son's eternal relation to the Father, which is rather humbly to be adored, than boldly to be explained, either by God's perfect understanding of his own essence, or by any other notion.
Certainly not by a transfer of a notion, and this too a notion of a faculty itself but notional and limitary, to the Supreme Reality.

But there are ideas which are of higher origin than the notions of the understanding, and by the irradiation of which the understanding itself becomes a human understanding.

Of such 'veritates verificae' Leighton himself in other words speaks often.

Surely, there must have been an intelligible propriety in the terms, 'Logos', Word, 'Begotten before all creation',--an adequate idea or 'icon', or the Evangelists and Apostolic penmen would not have adopted them.