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Rh many would have incurred, had the Lord spoken to the multitude otherwise than in parabolical or allegorical language, we read, that Jesus said to his disciples, "Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God; but to others in parables, that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand," Luke viii. 10. Again, "Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they who see not, might see; and that they who see, might be made blind, John ix. 39. And even to his disciples, who could not as yet comprehend the purport of his sayings, nor discern the high character which he really sustained, he observed, "I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now," John xvi. 12. In the next place, in reference to the term Lord being substituted for the name Jehovah, we find, that Jesus, when quoting the first commandment, "Hear, O Israel, Jehovah our God is one Jehovah," &c. Deut. vi. 4, expresses it thus, "Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord," &c. Mark xii. 29. And where in Ps. ex. 1, it is written, "Jehovah said unto my Lord," &c. Jesus quotes the passage in these terms, "The Lord said unto my Lord," &c. Matt, xxii. 44. Again, The arm of Jehovah, Isa. liii. 1, is called the arm of the Lord, John xii. 38; and so plainly refers to the miraculous power of Jesus, that no doubt can be entertained of his being the true Jehovah of the Old Testament, while he is acknowledged as the sole Lord of the New. By the term Lord, therefore, wheresoever it occurs in the Sacred Scriptures, as an appellation of Deity, we are uniformly to understand Jehovah in the Humanity, or in other words, the Saviour of the world,, who hath all power in heaven and in earth, Matt, xxviii. 18; who is one and the