...brightness of the sun shining round about him, and them that journeyed with him." And it is no wonder, " for he is the brightness of his Father's glory, and the express image of his person." And therefore must needs shine more gloriously than it is possible for any mere creature...

...dwell in him, as water in the ocean, or Jight in the sun, ever flowing, ever shining, and ever full! " He is the brightness of his Father's glory, and the express image of his person." He is his own glory, his own greatness, and his own fulness; possessing unsearchable riches...

...and in his states of humiliation and exaltation, has always been in the shape of a man. Paul says, he is the brightness of his Father's glory, and the express image of his person [Greek hupostaseos, substance.] This text shows beyond doubt, that God's person, or substance,...

...is communicated to finite capacities; "in him dwelleth all the fullness of the godhead bodily, and he is the brightness of his Father's glory, and the express image of his person.'' From the account which the scriptures give us, it evidently appears, that the supreme...

...— " God over all, blessed forever. Amen." "The Son of the living God." He, as God-man Mediator, who is ".the brightness of his Father's glory, and the express image of his person, King of kings, and Lord of lords ; " the head of his church, and the Saviour of his mystic...

...we, through his poverty, might be made rich. What stupendous love and matchless grace, that he, who is the brightness of his Father's glory and the express image of his person, should take upon him our nature, ' become bone of our bone, and flesh of our flesh,' and...

...dignity here specified—to be members of Iris body who fills heaven and earth with his presence, who is the brightness of his Father's glory and the express image of his person—to be fellow-heirs with Christ Jesus—to be raised to sit together in heavenly places...

...invisible world, gloom and obscurity ; the path of love and holiness, a path of thorns; and He who is " the brightness of his Father's glory and the express image of his person," is " a worm, and no man." But what an unspeakable happiness is it, that, however there...

...earth, visible, and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers; who is the brightness of his father's glory, and the express image of his person." This transcendent person is here seen "a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief;" sorrows...

...royal line ; yet this son of humanity, is also declared to be the only begotten Son of God, a Son who is the brightness of his Father's glory, and the express image of his person. But this Son is not given as a Saviour to fallen angels, they are passed by, although possessed...