To be near unto God - pagina 239

of nature. In man, who is created after his Image, he becomes more transparent. He is faliy seen in Christ, who is the express Image of his Person,

Image of the Invisible God (Col. 1:15). Image and not picture. What has been sculptured conveys more reality, than what has been picured jn lines and tints. It gives the full appearance. In marble or in metal the image imitates the

The picture that is massive form of life. drawn with the pencil or painted with the brush conveys in turn warmth of life, glow of soul and

the

mobilitj^ of features, which cold stubborn marble refuses to express. But the image is more impressive. It is overwhelming by reason of its greater reality and almost tangibility. The Scripture therefore does not speak of the portrait, but of the image of God, who is invisible, and in this expression the whole action of religion centers itself. God gives his image. Man cornipts it. Man himself wants to make an image of God. This is a heinous sin. In the end sin reaches its utmost height, when Satan, as the Beast, the Man of Sin, the Antichrist, erects an image of himself, and demands the worship for it, which is due alone to the *' express image of God's person" i. e. Christ. This revelation of God is not to be taken in a figurative or metaphorical sense. On the contrary it is supernatural reality. Hence the saying of Jesus to Philip: "He that hath seen me. hath seen the Father". (John 14:9) and hence the hope of glorv' for every child of God. that once he also shall see Christ as he is, and that in seeing the glorified Christ he shall see God himself face to face. He shall not see Christ and afterwards and

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