24. This long discussion has, I believe, brought
out the truth that no sound argument has ever been adduced in favour of
a distinction between One Who is, and One Who is not, true God, in
those passages where the Law speaks of God and God, of Lord and
Lord. I have proved that these terms are inconsistent with
difference between Them in name or in nature, and that we can use the
name as a test of the nature, and the nature as a clue to the
name. Thus I have shewn that the character, the power, the
attributes, the name of God are inherent in Him Whom the Law has called
God. I have shewn also that the Law, gradually unfolding the
Gospel mystery, reveals the Son as a Person by manifesting God as
obedient, in the creation of the world, to the words of God, and in the
formation of man making what is the joint image of God, and of God; and
again, that in the judgment of the men of Sodom the Lord is Judge from
the Lord; that, in the giving of blessings and ordaining of the
mysteries of the Law, the Angel of God is God. Thus, in support
of the saving confession of God as ever manifested in the Persons of
Father and of Son, we have shewn how the Law teaches the true Godhead
by the use of the strict name of God; for, while the Law states clearly
that They are Two, it casts no shadow of doubt upon the true Godhead of
either.