SIG THE GLORY or CHRIST As GOD -SCAN. sacred writer on this subject. Ezek. i. 20. " Above the firma. ment that was, over the heads of the living creatures was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone, and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appear- ance as a man above upon it, from his loins upward and down- ward, as it were the appearance of fire, and the appearance of ,á rainbow round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord, or Jehovah. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake. Ezek. in: 22. " And the hand of the Lord was upon me, and he said,. ,Arise, go forth into the plain,, and I will there talk with thee Then I arose and went forth into the plain, and behold the glory of the Lord stood there, as the glorywhich I saw by the river of Chebar." Each. viii. 1. "As I. sat in mine house and the elders of Judah sat before me, the hand of the Lord God fell typo me; then I beheld and lo, a likeness as the appearance of fire from his loins downward and upward, &c. And he puts forth the form . of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine bead, and the Spirit lift me up between the earth and the hea- ven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem : and behold the glory of the God of Israel was there according to that vision I saw in the plain." Ezek. x. 18. " Then the ,Tory of 'the Lord departed from off the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubims. Verse 20. This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river Chebar, &ç." Dan. iii, 25. Nebuchadnezzar when he had cast the three' Jews bound into the fiery furnace, said, Lo, 1 see four men loose walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt, and theform of the fourth is like the Son of God. It is not . to be supposed here that Nebuchadnezzar knew the Messiah or Christ, who was the Son of God, but he means to ex- press a divine and a God-like form*, which, verse 28. he calls the angel of the God of Shadrak, &c. though probably it might be the peculiar..angel of God's presence; in whom was the name of God, and Who is the only- begotten . Son of God. Daniel had several visions, and in some of them God ap- peared to him, or Jesus Christ in the form of man Dan. vii. 9, 10, 13, 14. I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and is It is sufficiently known to the learned, that in the oriental ways of speak- ing, almost every thing may be called a father, a son or adaughter; the son of pride, for a proud man ; the son of wickedness, for a wicked man ; the sons of the mighty, for mighty men; and the word God is also used to aggrandize any idea ; the frees of God for noble fair trees, Suc. no that in Nebuchadnezzar's mouth this phrase, theSon of God, can only mean a very gloriouspetsou above the,appearaace of mankind.
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