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forth, the Father to view; the Father was in Him, and He and the Father are one. On another occa- sion, He said to Thomas, “If ye had known Me, ye should have known My Father also: and from henceforth ye know Him, and have seen Him.” And when Philip was yet uncertain whether he understood the Lord's language, and asked for a more explicit statement, “Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known Me, Philip? He that hath seen Me, hath seen the Father.” Thus He declares to Philip that He was the Father brought forth to view; that in seeing Him, men see all that can be seen of the Everlasting Father; that He was God manifest in the flesh, the Divine revealed in Humanity, the Father in the Son.
Thus putting together what is said in the Old and New Testaments, we are brought to the inevitable conclusion that there is only One God, and that the Lord Jesus Christ is that One God. If we accept the declarations in the Gospels and Apocalypse, we cannot fail to see that they point to the great truth of the Supreme Divinity of Jesus Christ.
Call to mind what the Lord says: “I am the light of the world; He that followeth Me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. Come unto Me all ye that labor and are heavy laden, I will give you rest. If any man thirst, let him come unto Me and drink. He that believeth in Me, hath
