112 The Fundamentals may dwell among them”. And He symbolically did dwell in the Most Holy Place where the Shechinah appeared. So John affirms, “We beheld His glory”, as at the Transfiguration. What was anciently seen in the tabernacle was witnessed in a far more vivid way on the Mount when Moses with Elijah appeared in glory and talked with the incarnate Son of God. Compare with this the further revelation of the same Apostle, 1 John 1:1-3, where three of the most trustworthy of our senses^ hearing, sight, touch, are summoned to bear witness to the reality of the presence and glory of the Word of Life as He sojourned among men. ( d ) . ' “Only begotten”- - Unigenitus. As used in Scripture this term always designates a single person in the household. As applied to Christ it occurs only in John’s writings; here, 1:18; 3:16, 18; 1 Jno. 4:9. It marks off His sonship as unique, unshared by any others, even from those who are called the sons of God. John 16:28: “I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father”. From God, into the world, from the world back to God. Eternal Sonship with the Father (Greek, came out from ) ; incarnation; exaltation; oneness with the Father, pro- cession from the Father; redemption completed. He is the God-man, uniting two natures in one, distinct yet mysteriously constituting but one personality. 1 Tim. 3:16: “God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, be- lieved on in the world, received up into glory.” Even if we substitute the revised reading of this great rhythmical verse it still testifies to the theanthropic person of our Lord: “He who was manifested in the flesh”, etc. The plain and em- phatic teaching is, that Christ, the Son of God, was mani- fested, i. e., the invisible, eternal Son who dwelt in the bosom of the Father, has been made visible and is brought nigh to us in that He has taken into union with Himself human flesh. He was justified in the Spirit, i. e., He was proved to be
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