— JvararTi



TO THE PROPHETS. 273

hath sent me unto you.' ^ In the third chapter, the
Lord of Hosts says, *I will bring forth my servant j
the Branch ; ' but here (ch. iv. 8, 9) we have * the
Word of the Lord came unto me, saying . . . thus
speaketh the Lord of hosts . . . and ye shall know
that the Lord of hosts (the Father) hath sent me unto
you : ' and during the remainder of the prophecy
it appears that it is the Word of the Lord of
Hosts, the Logos Himself, Who communicates
the Divine will. For ' He came, saying. Thus saith
the Lord of hosts, I was jealous for Zion with great
jealousy, and I was jealous for her with great fury ;
Thus saith the Lord ; I am returned unto Zion, and
will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem : and Jerusalem
shall he called a city of truth; and the mountain
of the Lord of hosts the holy mountain.'^ ^ For
thus saith the Lord of hosts; as I thought to punish
you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith the
Lord of hosts, and I repented not : so again have I



Thou Me with Thine own self, with the glory which I had
with Thee, before the world was ; and prays that they also
whom Thou hast given Me, be with Me where I am, that they
may behold My glory which Thou hast given Me.* So St. Paul,
applying the words of the eighth Psalm, says of our Lord,
* We see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the Angels,
crowned with glory and honour.' It is used of the inward
glory given to regenerate Israel. Hos. xiv. 7. Or (o. Eng.)
as glorified by God : Zech. x. 3 : of kingly glory ; Jer. xx, 18,
Dan. xi. 21 : of the inward glory of man a^ such ; . ..
