Two dissertations, I. Concerning the end for which God created the world. II. The…

2 THE word glory, is used in scripture often to express the exhibition, emanation or communication of the internal glory. Hence it often signifies a visible exhibition of glory; as in an effulgence or shining brightness, by an emanation of beams of light. Thus the brightness of the sun and moon and stars is called their glory in 1 Cor. 15. 41. But in particular, the word is very often thus used, when applied to God and Christ. As in Ezek. 1. 28. "As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord." And chap. 10. 4. "Then the glory of the Lord went up from the cherub, and stood over the threshold of the house, and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the Lord's glory." Isai. 6. 1, 2, 3. "I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphim.—And one cried to another and said, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts, the whole earth is full of his glory." Compared with Joh. 12. 4. "These things said Isaiah, when he saw his glory and spake of him." Ezek. 43. 2. "And behold the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east.—And the earth shined with his glory." Isai. 24. 23. "Then the moon shall be confounded and the sun ashamed, when the Lord of hosts shall reign in Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously." Isai. 60. 1, 2. "Arise, shine, for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. For behold the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people; but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee." Together with ver. 19. "The sun shall be no more thy light by day, neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory."