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 in the nominative case, which excludes the idea of any wonder or surprise. They express a full and deliberate acknowledgment that Jesus is truly the one Lord God. May we think rightly of this full acknowledgment of the Lord our Saviour! then will our doubts vanish as the mists of the morning, and we shall see Jesus in his true character, as the Lord God Almighty.

T is a truth, clear to all who have studied with care the Word of God, that the Lord Jesus, in this chapter, has given a promise to his church and people, that he would appear a second time; but yet widely different to that of his coming in the flesh; for when the Lord came in the flesh, the church was indeed nothing but a dry ground, an unfertile soil, a spiritual desert; and Jesus, the Messiah, appearing in this state of the church, is truly described as having "borne our griefs and carried our sorrows;" yet it was by his suffering mercy, in visiting us in our afflictions, and teaching the way of truth, that we were healed of our infirmities and led in the path of righteousness: thus, "He was bruised for our iniquities, and by His stripes we are healed."

But. O reader! how glorious is his second coming! It is not as the man of sorrows, but a coming in power and glory, in the clouds of heaven, to gather us into one fold, and to open our minds to the perception of