fourth generation" (Exod. xxxiv. 5-7). In the Old Testament, then, God does not, by his Name, reveal his absolute nature, but his relation to man 68 the Supreme :Moral Governor of the world, whose characteristic in that government was omnipotence, uncontrolled by anything but his own will, but guided by meroy and justice. • V. IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, NOT ONLY Goo's RELATION TO HAN, BUT ALSO HIB owx NATURE, IS REVEALED DY THE NAME OF FATHER, SoN, AND HOLY GHOST. These names exhibit to us, so far as human faculties can apprehend them, the very Godhead, not merely as governing man, but in its essential character. 11 The revealed Name of God, given to the apostles in the tradition of holy baptism, is a revelation of truth. The enlire Christian revelation is in the way of a summary contained in it. It is itself a doctrine and the sum of all doctrine. It was originally given in order that the world might be taught it (' make disciples of all nations'), and it contains all that the world, in the way of religion, needs to be _taught. The apostles, indeed, by Divine inspiration, developed it into its essential and necessary details, summed into the Apostles' Creed; but in itself, that is, in the doctrine of the Holy Trinity, all was shortly comprised. In like manner, it is a creed and the sum of all creeds; for while we read that it was often used 68 a creed in early times, the structure of the subsequent authoritative creeds of the Church has been so framed upon it, and their contents so confined to it, that what we chiefly learn in all the articles of our belief, whether contained in the Apostles', the Nicene, or the Athanasian formula, is first, to believe in God the Father, who hath made all the world; secondly, in God the Son, who hath redeemed all mankind; and thirdly, in God the Holy Ghost, who sanctifieth all the elect people of God. . . . All the great elements and outlines of inspired teaching, as they are gathered into the Apostles' Creed, and all the minute expressions and articulations of truth as given to the Church in writing by the apostles, are to be regarded with deep, true, and habitual reverence for the sake of the Name of God" (Moberly,' The Law of the Love of God'). VL THE NAME JEBUB CHRIST INDI0ATES THE WORK AND THE RELATION TO OUBSELVEB oF Hill wno BE.ING MAN w AS ALSO Goo. 1. Christ is the Anointed One. " God anointed Jesus .•. with the Holy Ghost and with power" (Acts x. 38). "The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, . . . full of grace and truth" (John i. 14); "for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him" (John iii. 34); 11 for it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell" (Col. L 19). 2. Jesus is the Saviour. "Thou shalt call his name Jesus: for he shall save his people from their sins" (Matt. i. 21). "Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved" (Acts iv. 12); "a Prince and a Saviour" (Acts v. 31); "a Saviour, Jesus" (Acts xiii. 23). "He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him ; and with his stripes we are healed..•. The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all . . . . For the transgression of my people was he stricken" (lea. Jiii. 6-8). The Name Jesus Christ, therefore, indicates that he who bore it was the promised Messiah (Dan. ix. 25 ; John i. 41), filled to the full with the grace of the Holy Spirit, and the Saviour of those that put their trust in him.
HOMILIES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS. The crime of blasphemy. Ch. xxiv. 10-16; cf. 2 Chron. nvi. 16-23; Dan. v. 1-4, 80. The sanctity of the Name of God is distinctly declared in the third com- mandment. There the Lord declared that he would not hold the blasphemer II guiltless.'' Dut it was not till the incident now before us that God showed his sense of the enormity of the crime. He here puts it into the category of capital crimes, and decrees the neath of every blasphemer, whether he be a stranger or one born in the land. Now, when we inquire, we find that he calls it" this glorious and fearful name, THB Lonn THY Goo" (Deut. xxviii. 68). So glorious ie it that inanimato things, when his Name is put upon them, cannot be desecrated with impunity. Thus his tabernacle could not be treated even by a king according to his capricious pleasure, but Uzziah, for presuming to burn incense within it, is doomed to leprosy and exile all his life (2 Chron. xxvi. 16-23). Bel~hazzar too paid the penalty of his life for desecrating tl.e vessels belonging to the tabernacle (Dan. v. 1-4, 30), .m. XXIV. 10-23.) THE BOOK OF LEVITICUS. 387