(and rejoiced in the expectation thereof) in which the high and inestimable happiness of the human race should be restored to them in its full measure. Concerning the exalted happiness, and the possession and enjoyment thereof, though it be only as a foretaste, Jesus speaks in plain terms, saying, “Blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear; for verily I say unto you, that many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see and have not seen them;