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 will—but he actually showed himself to men's eyes, and made himself visible to them in a Personal form. Through this, he spoke audibly Divine words, he did visibly Divine acts,—through this, he stood amongst his creatures, and walked upon the earth which he had made. In this human form, he was called, which means the Saviour, and the Anointed; for he had assumed this Humanity, not only to manifest himself to men, but also that he might become their Saviour from the Infernal Powers; and that Humanity was called "the Anointed," as being consecrated and sanctified by the Divine love within.

Now, in this Humanity, the quality or nature of God was manifested to men with a fullness and distinctness, far beyond that of any of the other forms in which the Divine has sought to make himself comprehensible to his creatures. There was, in the first place, a visible form before them, which they could behold with their eyes, and through which they could receive a distinct idea of the character within. It was the Divine indeed thickly veiled,—but it was as much as they could then bear. Moses, himself, a mere man, was obliged to veil his face, when he came down from the mount, after being merely in the presence of God: but here was God himself: how densely then was it necessary to veil himself with a material covering! Yet it was "all glorious within:" and to those who could bear it, as to his disciples in his transfiguration on the mount, he sometimes showed his interior Humanity, with the face "shining as the sun." Yet even through the outer form, though still