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 beams of light that shot forth from the face of Moses; we may instantly see the ground of their fear! They were afraid to come nigh him! What, afraid to meet the radiant beams of light? O how forcibly do our Lord's words strike us—"They love darkness rather than light, because their deeds are evil."

Every part of the Divine Word of Revelation is inwardly filled with a spiritual and Divine sense: this sense is truly descriptive of all the states of a man's interior life: all his hidden affections and thoughts are by this explored—manifesting the state which fits a man for heaven and its pleasures, as well as that which plunges him into hell and its woes! This spiritual sense of the Word is its inward light, the brightness and the glory; while the literal sense is, as it were, the outward skin, the covering and defence! All the historical parts of the Word of God, here represented by Moses, contain truths which are vivid and bright!—and although these are covered, as it were, by the literal sense, as by a skin, yet the glory occasionally shoots forth in radiant beams of light, manifesting the divine love and wisdom—the fire and light within.

There are many professing Christians who acknowledge that there is a sanctity and divinity in the Word of God—a spiritual sense within the letter; but when they are told that this sense is that which penetrates the interior recesses of the mind, searching the heart and trying the reins, laying open the interior states of a man's life, exploring his affections and thoughts, and pronouncing a righteous judgment: they begin to be alarmed, they are afraid to look upon the light, that is, they will not see or acknowledge it. They have no particular ob-