'And God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him.' In another passage it is written that, when Adam had eaten of the forbidden fruit and gained knowledge of good and evil, the LORD God said: 'Behold,¹ the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil.' Again in the account of the building of the Tower of Babel it is written that God said: 'Let ² us go down, and there confound their language.' This is exactly parallel with the words of the Lord Jesus Christ in the Gospel, where he says: ' If ³ a man love me, he will keep my word: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.'

Among the other passages in which reference seems to be made in the Old Testament to the great mystery of the Most Holy Trinity in unity in the divine nature are the following:—

(1) The verses in the Taurat in which God commands Moses to teach Aaron and his sons in what words to pray for a blessing upon the people of Israel. 'And ⁴ the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, speak unto Aaron and unto his sons, saying, On this wise ye shall bless the children of Israel; ye shall say unto them,

The LORD bless thee, and keep thee:
The LORD make his face to shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:

The LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.'

Here it may seem to some people that the threefold repetition of the incommunicable name of God (יהוה) is intended merely for emphasis. But in the light of the Gospel we may see in this a reference to the same great doctrine, though not a proof of it.

(2) A very remarkable passage occurs in the Book of the prophet Isaiah, which cannot be explained at all satisfactorily except by remembering what the New Testament teaches us about the three divine Hypostases. There God says: ' Hearken¹ unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last. Yea, mine hand hath laid the foundation of the earth,² and my right hand hath spread out the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up together . . . . Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; from the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord GOD hath sent me, and his Spirit.' Here He who is the first and the last; the Creator of heaven and earth, says that He and God's Spirit have been sent by the Lord God ³ to execute a divinely-appointed commission. The three Hypostases here most clearly appear, and the whole passage is in complete accord with the teaching of the New Testament,