The reading of 1 Timothy 3:16, 'God was manifest

in the flesh' is

witnessed by 289 manuscripts, by three versions and by

upwards of twenty

Greek Fathers.  Moreover the text of the R.V. does not

make grammatical

Greek.  The relative pronoun hos should agree with its

antecedent, but

musterion is neuter.  Bloomfield in his Synoptica says

'hos ephanerothe is

not Greek'.

We have no hesitation, therefore, in believing that in the A.V. we have

the sense of the original.  God as spirit is invisible, but God incarnate,

God manifest in the flesh, makes the Mediation of Christ gloriously possible.

This Mediation is stressed in 1 Timothy 2:1 -6, where the R.V. rightly reads,

'Himself man', thereby emphasizing the fact that the Mediation and the

Manifestation go together.  It is untrue to teach as some have that the flesh

of the Redeemer 'veiled' rather than 'manifested' God to man.  This is mixing

'access' into the holiest, with the office of the Logos Who came 'to declare'

God.  We Do see the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.  'He that hath

Seen Me', said Christ, 'hath Seen The Father'.  To say, therefore, that He

veiled the Father is a serious contradiction of Scripture.

We have now surveyed those passages which use the fact of the true

humanity of the Saviour to teach us certain doctrines concerning His

Mediatorial work.  This study, however, while complete in itself is but the

prelude to fuller investigation which must comprehend:

His birth and genealogies.

References to His Body.

References to Himself as a Man,