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Rh One "called Faithful and True," seated upon a white horse and followed by the armies of heaven, having upon his head many crowns, and written upon his vesture and on his thigh the title, "King of kings and Lord of lords;" and his special function was—the exclusive function of divine truth from the Word—"to judge in righteousness," and "make war" against the beast and false prophet, or the combined forces of falsity and evil that are forever in battle-array against the truth and righteousness of the Most High. And, as if to leave no room for doubt as to who this "true and faithful" One might be, it is added: "And He was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood, and his name is called the Word of God."

The Son of Man, then, is the Word of God—the very Divine Wisdom or Truth. This is the plain testimony of Scripture. What, then, can the prophecy of his second coming mean, but the prophecy of a new and more powerful manifestation of the Divine Wisdom and Love to the understandings and hearts of men?— a new or second coming of the Word of God? And what can a new or second coming of the Word mean, but a new revelation of the deeper, even the heavenly, meaning of the Word?—a new disclosure of its real nature and its sacred mysteries, or of its interior divine glories?—an opening and revealing,