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that ever lived, with the Blessed Virgin at their head, were to unite for their whole lives, aye forever, in one act of reparation, they could never satisfy God's offended majesty. That is one reason why out of hell there is no redemption; viz., because the atonement of those lost souls, however intense or protracted, can never transcend the merely finite. God alone can expiate in a manner infinitely meritorious. The Redemption was a work not for man alone, for it exceeded his powers; nor for God alone, for man had sinned; but for both united in one — the man-God. Hie Redeemer, come when He will, must essentially have united the divine and human natures in His single personality. Has such a figure appeared in history? How shall I know Him? I turn to the Old Testament, a book sacred alike to Unitarian and Jew, and there I find Him fully described. As a result of the original promise of His coming, made to our first parents, I find Him, the expectation of Israel, alive in the minds and hearts of the people for four thousand years, and faith in Him sustained by type and figure and prophecy. I see Him typified in the saving ark of Noe, and in the paschal lamb whose blood on the door-posts saved the people from God's avenging angel. I see Him prefigured in Moses — the deliverer of his people; in Joseph, sold by his brethren to become afterwards their saviour; in Isaac, staggering under the wood for sacrifice; in Abel, slain by his brother; in Jonas, rising again after three days in the bowels of the earth. The prophets tell me when and where He was to be born