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When I reflect upon the subject of the messenger of the covenant, and observe the distinction taken in the prophets between the teaching and suffering Christ, -- the Priest, who was to precede, and the triumphant Messiah, the Judge, who was to follow, -- and how Jesus always seems to speak of the Son of Man in a future sense, and yet always at the same time as identical with himself; I sometimes think that our Lord himself in his earthly career was the Messenger; and that the way is _now still preparing_ for the great and visible advent of the Messiah of Glory. I mention this doubtingly.
What a beautiful sermon or essay might be written on the growth of prophecy! -- from the germ, no bigger than a man's hand, in Genesis, till the column of cloud gathers size and height and substance, and assumes the shape of a perfect man; just like the smoke in the Arabian Nights' tale, which comes up and at last takes a genie's shape.[1]