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 "Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in."—(Is. xxvi. 2.)

PART I.

CHAPTER I., Form. , Likeness. , Shape. have been of opinion that by in Hebrew, the shape and figure of a thing is to be understood, and this explanation led men to believe in the corporeality [of the Divine Being]: for they thought that the words, "Let us make man in our form" (Gen. i. 26), implied that God had the form of a human being, i.e., that He had figure and shape, and that, consequently, He was corporeal. They adhered faithfully to this view, and thought that if they were to relinquish it they would eo ipso reject the