in the Septuagint, Ps. 44, 3, in the phrase rendered, " in the light of thy countenance," and Ps. 78, 14, "He led them all night Avith a light of fire." The word therefore signifies the brightness emitted by a radiant body. Of the glorious gospel of Christy literally, the gospel of the glory of Christy i. e. that gospel "which reveals the glory of Christ. The word h6^^^ glory^ is not to be taken as a merely qualifying genitive of cmyyeXtov, gospel. It is the genitive of the object. The glory of Christ is the sum of all the divine and human excellence which is centred in his person, and makes him the radiant point in the universe, the clearest manifestation of God to his creatures, the object of supreme admiration, adoration and love, to all intelligent beings, and especially to his saints. To see this glory is to be saved ; for we are thereby transformed into his likeness from glory to glory, 3, 18. Therefore it is that Satan, the great adversary, directs all his energy to pre- vent men becoming the subjects of that illumination of which the gospel, as the revelation of the glory of Christ, is the source. Who is the image of God^ i. e. who being God rep- resents God, so that he who hath seen the Son hath seen the Father also. John 14, 9. 12, 45. Christ, as to his divine na- ture, or as the Logos, is declared to be the brightness of the Father's glory, Heb. 1, 3, to be in the form of God and equal with God, Phil. 2, (3, and perhaps also Col. 1, 15 ; but here it is the incarnate Logos, the exalted Son of God clothed in our nature, who is declared to be the image of God, because in him dwells the fulness of the Godhead bodily. Col. 2, 9.
5. For we preacli not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord ; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.
The connection indicated by the particle for is with the main idea of the preceding verse. ' Oar gospel,' says Paul, ' is the gospel of the glory of Christ, for we do not preach ourselves, but him.' To preach one's self is to make self the end of preacliing ; that is, preaching with the design to at- tract to ourselves the admiration, the confidence or homage of men. This Paul declares he did not do, but he preached Christ Jesus the Lord. His obj 9ct in preaching was to bring men to recognize Jesus the son of Mary as Christ, i. e. as him whom Moses and the prophets designated as the Messiah, and consequently that this Jesus was, had done, is doing, and would hereafter do, all that had been asserted or predicted of