presence. It was in this way that Moses saw him in the burning bush, and that he and all Israel beheld him when, amid the terrible displays of majesty and glory, he revealed his law from the burning summit of Mount Sinai. Thus, too, God accompanied his chosen people in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night; and when they made him a sanctuary, that he might dwell among them, he took possession of it in a visible form, which was called “the glory of the Lord.” There is, therefore,