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 and His nature through the incarnation of these in Jesus Christ.

This actual revelation of God to man may be thus outlined. The time had come in human preparation when a most perfect revelation of God should be made. It should not take place as in times of old, through the "angel of the Lord," which means an angel filled with the presence of God and therefore speaking His will; nor through a prophet, who proclaimed from the dictation of God; nor through scribes, whose hands God used to write His truth; but through a living, human nature, like man's because born of woman, and of which God was the soul because it was begotten of Him. In other words, God the Creator, desiring for all time to reveal Himself to the world, in order to accommodate the infinite to the finite, clothed Himself with a human body and a human nature, and became Emanuel, "God with us." Through that human nature, which touched man by its outmost, and was God in its inmost, the Infinite was, and is, and ever will be accommodated and mediated to finite receptivity in Jesus Christ. Through that human He spoke the words of eternal truth, lived according to it in the sight of men, and became incarnate truth. By life and deeds He revealed the nature of "the Father within." Through His self-sacrificing devotion