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thou unto us a mouth in respect of God, and we will be unto Him His own people." Do ye not see that they denied Christ and said, " We will not hearken to that Voice so that we may not die in terror " ? Now Christ was the Word of God, and therefore when they said, u We will not hearken to that Voice," they meant, " We do not believe in Christ." And again Moses spake unto God and said, " Shew me Thy Face." 1 And God said unto Moses, " No one can look upon My Face and live, but only as in a mirror. Turn thy face to the west and thou shalt see in the rock the mirroring of My Face." And when Moses saw the shadow of the Face of God, his own face shone with a brightness which was seven times brighter than the sun, and the light was so strong that the children of Israel could not look upon his face except through a veil. And he saw that they did not desire to thereupon look upon the Face of God, for they said unto him, " Make unto us a veil so that we may not see thy face." 2 And having said these words it is evident that they hated the hearing of His words and the sight of His Face. And moreover, when Abraham took his son Isaac up into Mount Karmelewos (Carmel), God sent down from heaven a ram for the redemption of Isaac. And Isaac was not slaughtered, but the ram which had come down from heaven was slaughtered. Now Abraham is to be interpreted God the Father, and Isaac is to be interpreted as a symbol of Christ the Son. And when He came down from heaven for the salvation of Adam and his sons, the Godhead which had come down from heaven was not slain, but His body which He had put on for our sakes, that earthly body which He had put on from Mary, was slain. Can ye understand and knowthat likeness and similitude for the earthly being Isaac, the son of Abraham, who was an offering of the will of 1 Exodus xxxiii, 18-23. 172 * Exodus xxxiv, 33.