of what it represents. The essence of the thing appears in the image.’3 Thus, Jesus could explain to Philip and the other disciples, ‘Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father.… Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me?… Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me’ (John 14:9–11). Christ is both the very essence of God and a chief means by which God has revealed himself. An unknown writer to early Jewish Christians reminds them that ‘In the
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