view or knowledge of God's excellency. The exhibition of glory is to
glory especially was the end of the travail of his soul, in obtaining which end he was satisfied, agreeable to Is. 53:10–11.
This is agreeable to what has been just observed of God's glory being so often represented by an effulgence, or emanation, or communication of light, from a luminary or fountain of light. What can be thought of, that so naturally and aptly represents the emanation of the internal glory of God; or the flowing forth, and abundant communication of that infinite fullness of good that is in God? Light is very often in Scripture put for comfort, joy, happiness and for good in general.
3. Again, the word "glory," as applied to God in Scripture, implies the view or knowledge of God's excellency. The exhibition of glory is to the view of beholders. The manifestation of glory, the emanation or effulgence of brightness, has relation to the eye. Light or brightness is a quality that has relation to the sense of seeing: we see the luminary by its light. And knowledge is often expressed in Scripture by light. The word "glory" very often in Scripture signifies or implies honor, as anyone may soon see by casting his eye on a concordance. But honor implies the knowledge of the dignity and excellency of him who hath the honor. And this is often more especially signified by the word "glory" when applied to God. Num. 14:21, "But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord," i.e. all the earth shall see the manifestations I will make of my perfect holiness and hatred of sin, and so of my infinite excellence. This appears by the context. So Ezek. 39:21–23, "And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them. So the house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord their God. And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity." And 'tis manifest in many places, where we read of God's glorifying