in the flesh.' 'In him was to dwell all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.' And we shall have no difficulty in interpreting those lofty predicates of him which we find in the proem of John's gospel, if we bear in mind that the same or equivalent language is unreservedly used in the Old Testament of the Shekinah, the 'Word' of that dispensation. Under the dictation of the Holy Spirit the august titles Jehovah, Jehovah God, Jehovah of Hosts, Angel of the Presence, &c., are again and again applied to the visible symbol of the Shekinah, and all the acts and attributes proper to the Supreme God, the Creator of the world, and the object of all religious worship, most freely ascribed to it. So truly then as the Shekinah of the earlier economy is identified with the Jehovah of the Old Testament, and the Shekinah is the same as 'The Word' that was made flesh, so truly is Jesus Christ also the Jehovah of the inspired Scriptures, 'God over all and blessed for ever.'

To those who may be desirous of extending their inquiries on this subject, the following works will be found replete with interesting views and reasonings:— Lowman's Three Tracts on the Shekinah; Allix's Judgment of the Ancient Jewish Church against the Unitarians; Ben Mordecai's Letters; and the Rev. C. W. Upham's Letters on the Logos. With several of the conclusions of this latter gentleman we find it impossible to coincide, but we feel no hesitation, nevertheless, in awarding to his little volume on the Shekinah and the Logos the praise of an elaborate and candid research into the whole subject, and of an able comparative estimate of the lights thrown upon it by sacred and ecclesiastical antiquity. But the theme is one of sufficient importance to demand a far more extended investigation than it has ever yet received. We are persuaded it is destined to furnish a key to the solution of some of the profoundest mysteries of revelation. Among English commentators we know of no one, except Patrick, who seems to have had any adequate idea of what is really involved in the recorded theophanies of the Old Testament.