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16 of that which was written is eternal. It is the indwelling mind of God and Divine truth from Him in all its gradations. It is this eternal and perpetual inspiration of truth in the Scriptures themselves which constitutes them the Word of God; which makes them reach bevond the necessities of the occasion on which they were given; and by virtue of which they furnish food for the angels in heaven as well as men on earth. The Word in its "beginnings" or first principles, is "with God" and "is God;" but to make itself apprehensible to finite minds, it must clothe itself with garments woven from the fibers of angelic and human thought, constituting a spiritual and a natural sense, to suit the states respectively of angels and of men.

When men on earth rejected Him who was the Word made flesh, they divided His coat, and found a vesture woven from the top throughout without a seam. This essential Word appearing as the Son of Man, clothed with an inner garment, and over this an outer robe, pieced and seamed, represents the Word which is the Divine truth itself, clothed in the vesture of angelic wisdom, which constitutes the spiritual sense of our written Bible, and over this the outer garment of its letter, pieced from