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 only God, and alone to be worshiped, is in fact Jehovah Jesus, at once the Creator and the Redeemer of mankind.

And this is, truly, the one God who is to be worshiped, and there is no other. Before the incarnation, indeed, Jehovah, that is, the abstract, essential Divinity, was the Object of worship. But as the unclothed abstract Divine is invisible to man's mental sight, and inaccessible to the finite mind, men's minds were in comparative obscurity, and a shadow rested on the world. But when that Jehovah became incarnate, and appeared in the form of Jesus, then a light arose on mankind: "the people that sat in darkness saw a great light, and to those that sat in the region and shadow of death light sprang up." This was because the Divine was now accommodated to men's perceptions: clothed in Humanity, he had now made himself accessible to them. Hence Jesus called himself "The light of the world." He also appeared transfigured before the Apostles, "His face shining as the sun, and his raiment white as the light. This was the internal Humanity, which they beheld with their spiritual sight, through the veil of the flesh not yet glorified. But after his resurrection, he rose with the humanity wholly glorified, and in that glorious body ascended," as the Apostle says, "far above all heavens, that he might fill all things." This is now the one true object of worship—Jehovah incarnate, Jehovah clothed with Humanity, the Lord