forms. He comes now in the dreams and the visions of his prophets. These appearances are often so ‘unveiled’, that they completely overwhelm the godly, though of course still sinful, men to whom they are granted. Nonetheless, however he comes, the Lord always appears with merciful and loving intentions. As one commentator has put it, ‘He graciously adopted such methods to indicate how much he longed for the fulness of time when he should put away their sins and bring in an everlasting righteousness