GLORY OF THE LORD 239 Hence he is called the Brightnefs of the Glory, or the manifeft Splendor, by which the Glory is imparted and known. The Effulgence of GOD's effential Glory is conjoined with our Nature in the Perlon of Chrift; and, in that Perlon, we partake of this Effulgence, or enjoy Communion with it.* The Pfalmift faw this Glory, and teftified his Intereft in it; when he addreffed his Redeemer, in the Name of the Church, and Paid, In thy LIGHT we 'hall fee Light, and all thy People thy GLORY. This Glory was often fenfibly evident to the antient Church, in a fplendid and luminous Manner.-- The Wt., who was favored with this fuperlative Brightnefs to the outward Eye, was one, for whom GOD had de- creed an Apoftlefhip--one, who had denied the fpiritual Exiftence of this Glory in Jefus ; and diligently labored, as far as he might, to extinguifh its Splendor in the World. This Glory, exhibited to the outward Senfe, led the Ifraelites from Egypt to an earthly Canaan Thus Chri11, according to the Nicene Creed, is Light OF Light, ofone Subflance with the FA CHER. Many of the Fathers, who florifhed when the Arian Herefy was principally agitated, i. e, about the fourth Century, frequently illultrated the Argument upon the Trinity by a Similitude, fometimes taken from fire, and fometimes from the material Sun. Leontius Epifcopus, urged, That as vrcp, á,ravyaapta, pwq, Fire, Splendor, Light, were all effentially one in Nature, though diflinguifhable into three feveral Properties ;. fn FATHER, Son, and SPIRIT, are ,three Perlons in one indivifible Esssoecv. Atbanafius, Ephr,zn Syrus,Cyril, and others, reprefented, That as the Orb, Light and Heat, make but one Sun; fo FATHER, SON, and SPIRIT, are but one GOD: And that as the Light and Heat are ceëval and coëffential with the fular Orb, yet eafily dif= tinguifhable though indivifible from it; fo the SON and SPIRIT are efentially and eternally, though not perfonálly, ONE with the FATHER, forming an individual Unity of GOD-head. The Latin. Tranflator of Ephræm Syrus from the Syriac faya, That Athanafnes and others borrowed this Simile from Tbeognoflus, an ancient Writer, who florifhed before him. See much of thefe Illuftrations, colleéted bySure s aus, in his T'hef. Leeks. in verb. Tpaç, riaavyae¡ca,, baIcH.. And alfo ASSEMAN. Biblioth. Orient. Vatic. Tom. t. e. vi. .edit. Rom. !7 L9. t Exod. xxxiii. g, so, zz. xl. 34,. 85, Lev. ix. z3,.. &c. ar
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