CHAPTER XIII.

Of the Chaldee Paraphrasts--Their method of designating the Personal WORD or Revealer--Occasion and Necessity of it.

He who, in the primeval dispensation, was, in his official character, distinctively announced as the Messenger Jehovah, and the Messenger Elohim, is, in the same character, no less distinctively announced, on his visible appearance incarnate, as the Word. And, taking the words, John i. 1, last clause, in the order in which they occur in the original, "God (Elohim) was the Word," He, in that character, is declared to be the Creator. "All things were made by him." "By him"--referred to as the Son, and as the image of the invisible God, in whom we have redemption through his blood--"were all things created, that are in heaven and that are in earth, visible and invisible." Col.