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like ourselves; but the Eternal Word who was with God and was God from the beginning, who made heaven and earth, inspired and kept them in being, who revealed Himself from the ancient times as the Divine Man, who put on the human form of an angel that He might be seen before the spiritual sight of patriarchs and prophets, now taking the nature of man upon himself by actual conception and birth into the world, and glorifying it by the actual life of the eternal Mind in it and upon it, to be forever more to men the very objective revelation of God, to be the visible object of their faith and worship, and the medium of the eternal life which is light to the souls of all men. It was miracle; but the same old miracle by which the eternal mind produces and dwells in the universe, produces a written Revelation and dwells in it, creates human minds and dwells with them, orders human history and testifies His eternal providence by it. It was only the indwelling mind of God, in its eternal purpose and meaning, coming out into realization and revelation. The humanity of Christ was conceived of the highest; so is every spirit of man through the father of him. This Divine conception immediate and inde-