Suggested Further Reading: 1 Peter 1:3-9
Not think about him, and dream about him; but we shall positively “see him as he is.”
How different that sight of him will be from that which we have here.
For here we see him by reflection.
Now, I have told you before, we see Christ “through a glass darkly;” then we shall see him face to face.
Good Doctor John Owen, in one of his books, explains this passage, “Here we see through a glass darkly;” and he says that means, “Here we look through a telescope, and we see Christ only darkly through it.”
But the good man had forgotten that telescopes were not invented till hundreds of years after Paul wrote; so that Paul could not have intended telescopes. Others have tried to give other meanings to the word. The fact is, glass was never used to see through at that time. They used glass to see by, but not to see through.
The only glass they had for seeing was a glass mirror. They had some glass which was no brighter than our black common bottle-glass. “Here we see through a glass darkly.” That means, by means of a mirror. As I have told you, Jesus is represented in the Bible; there is his portrait; we look on the Bible, and we see it.
We see him “through a glass darkly.”
Just as sometimes, when you are looking in your looking glass, you see somebody going along in the street. You do not see the person; you only see him reflected.
Now, we see Christ reflected; but then we shall not see him in the looking-glass; we shall positively see his person.
Not the reflected Christ, not Christ in the sanctuary, not the mere Christ shining out of the Bible, not Christ reflected from the sacred pulpit; but “we shall see him as he is.”
The sight of Jesus will distress many (Revelation 1:7); are you positively looking forward to seeing him (John 12:21)?
Sermon nos. 61-62
19 January (Preached 20 January 1856)
19 January (Preached 20 January 1856)
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