We are presented then, in the New Testament Scriptures, with the august spectacle of the Ancient of Days holding the entire volume of the Old Testament Scriptures in His Hands, _and interpreting it of Himself_. He, whose Life and Death are set forth in the Gospel;--whose Church's early fortunes are set forth historically in the Acts, while its future prospects are shadowed prophetically in the Apocalypse;--whose Doctrines, lastly, are explained in the twenty-one Epistles of St. Paul and St. Peter, St. James and St. John and St. Jude:--He, the Incarnate WORD, who was "in the beginning;" who "was with GOD," and who "was GOD:"--that same Almighty One, I repeat, is exhibited to us in the Gospel, repeatedly, holding the Volume of the Old Testament Scriptures in His Hands, and _explaining it of Himself. "To day is this Scripture fulfilled_ in your ears[187],"--was the solemn introductory sentence with which, in the Synagogue of Nazareth, (after closing the Book and giving it again to the Minister,) He prefaced His Sermon from the lxist chapter of Isaiah.--"Had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed Me: _for he wrote of Me_[188],"--"'O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the Prophets have spoken! Ought not CHRIST to have suffered these things, and to enter into His glory?' And _beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself_[189]."--"These are the words which I spake unto you, that all things must be fulfilled _which are written in the Law of Moses, and in the Prophets, and in the Psalms, concerning Me_[190]." "CHRIST was before Moses. The Gospel was not made for the Law; but the Law was made for the Gospel. The Gospel is not based on the Law, but the Law is a shadow of the Gospel. In order to believe the Bible, we must look upward; and fix our eyes on JESUS CHRIST, sitting in Heavenly Glory, holding both Testaments in His Hand; sealing both Testaments with His seal; and delivering both Testaments as Divine Oracles, to the World. We must receive the _written Word_ from the Hands of the INCARNATE WORD[191]." This august spectacle, let it be clearly stated,--(1) Establishes, beyond all power of contradiction, the intimate connexion which subsists between the Old and the New Testament; as well as the altogether unique relation which the one bears to the other:--(2) Invests either Testament with a degree of sacred importance and majestic grandeur which altogether makes the Bible _unlike "any other book_:"--(3) Proves that the Bible is to be interpreted as no other book ever was, or ever can be interpreted:--(4) Demonstrates that it has _more than a single meaning_:--and lastly, Convincingly shews that _GOD, and not Man, is its true Author_.