“GOD who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined God into our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ,” II. Cor. iv. 6. It is a loaden expression, and holds forth the inward teachings of God on both sides; both in reference to the subject, and in reference to the object. In reference to the subject. He that commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined into our hearts; man’s light may shine into the head, but God’s light doth shine into the heart. God hath His throne in heaven, but His chair, His pulpit, is in the heart; He “hath shined into our hearts.” And then you have the inwardness of divine teaching in respect of the object; “He hath given us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.” Man may give knowledge, confused general knowledge, but God giveth the light of knowledge in the lustre and brightness of it. “In thy light we shall see light,” Psalm xxxvi. 9. The soul seeth by the same light whereby God Himself seeth, “thy light.” And not only so; here is not only knowledge and light of knowledge, but the glory of that light; the light which God brings in to the sanctified understanding, is a glorious light, a marvellous light, I. Pet. ii. 9. The soul that the Spirit of God taketh by the hand, and leadeth into truth, standeth wondering at the glory and excellence of that light which shines round about it. And then lastly, all this in the face of Jesus Christ; the face is the full discovery of a person. Moses could not see God’s face, but only His back-parts he might see, Exod. xxxiii. 23. But now by the flesh of Jesus Christ God hath put a veil upon His face; the veil of His flesh, Heb. x. 20, through which we may see the face of God; for now in Christ it is God manifest in the flesh, I. Tim. iii. 16, the human nature of Jesus Christ hath made God visible. In this face now of Jesus Christ do they, whom God teacheth by a saving gospel-teaching, see divine truth, that is, they see it now not by borrowed representations and natural resemblances, but in its own native beauty and lustre, “as the truth is in Jesus,” Eph. iv. 21. “He hath shined into our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.” This is the first property of divine teaching. It is inward, and that both in respect of subject and object. — Case’s Correction, Instruction; The Rod and the Word.