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54 THE GODS OF THE NATIONSBut this truth is not merely external to man.In order to be received and appropriated by him,he must become capable of it. The Restorer workshis restoration by an inward act upon the soul, itsintellect and will. The Image of God sets up Hisseat within His work, the copy. Man is sealed bythe Holy Spirit with the likeness and resemblanceof the Father's Face, the Son ; and having the Sonwithin him, and giving a home within the soul tothe divine character, and making this his treasure,man is formed after God.45 The supreme likeness,which is beyond all others, is impressed on humansouls by the Spirit of the Father and the Son. Asthe defacing of the likeness, the result of the originalfall, caused the obscuring of the Truth, so itsrestoration was itself the recovery of the Truth.And this restoration is itself the witness to theTruth of which He spoke before Pilate as the objectof His birth and advent. But to make thewitness operative and fruitful, the greatest wonderin this list of wonders is required, the suffering ofthe Truth Himself. He said of the corn of wheat,as to bear fruit in unnumbered hearts.that it would remain alone unless it fell into theground and died. And so His crucifixion in thenature which He had assumed was the act fromwhich the renewal of truth went forth ; and notonly in His Person, but likewise in His chosenwitnesses this special mode of vivifying the truth,45 S. Cyril. Alex. torn. v. 1, pp. 544, 557 a.