John 1:18. "No man hath seen God at any time; the only-begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him." God under the Old Testament gave the images of things the substance and reality of which He gave in the New; and one instance of this was, that Christ so often under the Old Testament appears in human shape. This was an image and an earnest of His incarnation; and it is still God's manner to give the image and earnest of the glorious things that are to be brought to pass for His Church, and in the spiritual world, before He actually accomplishes them; and it was pleasing to Him to appear in human shape, whose 'delights were with the sons of men,' who delighted in the human nature, and in the thought of taking the human nature and a human body; He delighted in a human shape, and in the resemblance of His future incarnation.

John 1:31

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