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 that ever  lived,  with  the  Blessed  Virgin  at  their  head, were to  unite  for  their  whole  lives,  aye  forever,  in  one act of  reparation,  they  could  never  satisfy  God's  offended majesty. That is  one  reason  why  out  of  hell there is  no  redemption;  viz.,  because  the  atonement of those  lost  souls,  however  intense  or  protracted, can never  transcend  the  merely  finite. God alone can expiate  in  a  manner  infinitely  meritorious. The Redemption was  a  work  not  for  man  alone,  for  it  exceeded his  powers;  nor  for  God  alone,  for  man  had sinned; but  for  both  united  in  one — the  man-God. Hie Redeemer,  come  when  He  will,  must  essentially have united  the  divine  and  human  natures  in  His single personality. Has such  a  figure  appeared  in history? How shall  I  know  Him? I turn  to  the  Old Testament, a  book  sacred  alike  to  Unitarian  and  Jew, and there  I  find  Him  fully  described. As a  result  of the  original  promise  of  His  coming,  made  to  our  first parents, I  find  Him,  the  expectation  of  Israel,  alive in the  minds  and  hearts  of  the  people  for  four  thousand years,  and  faith  in  Him  sustained  by  type  and figure and  prophecy. I see  Him  typified  in  the  saving ark  of  Noe,  and  in  the  paschal  lamb  whose blood on  the  door-posts  saved  the  people  from  God's avenging  angel. I see  Him  prefigured  in  Moses — the deliverer  of  his  people;  in  Joseph,  sold  by  his brethren to  become  afterwards  their  saviour;  in Isaac,  staggering  under  the  wood  for  sacrifice;  in Abel,  slain  by  his  brother;  in  Jonas,  rising  again after three  days  in  the  bowels  of  the  earth. The prophets tell  me  when  and  where  He  was  to  be  born