In the English periodical, The Gospel Herald, Samuel Gray of Brighton wrote an article wherein he argued that the “Ancient of Days” in Dan 7 is Jesus, not the Father. Further, he admitted something that many Trinitarians are often too hesitant to do—admit that their Christology is pretty incomprehensible:
I.—THE COMPLEXITY OF THE PERSON
OF CHRIST. The golden girdle drew the sacred garments close about the body of Aaron, fitly setting forth the close—the inconceivably close—connection of the
human with the Divine in our Great High-Priest. The high-priestly attire of the
type is done away in the Antitype who took upon Him (or clothed Himself with)
our flesh. The golden girdles was a curious one; it was manufactured
with great skill. And, truly, the girdle wherewith the human nature is girded
to the Divine in the person of the Lord Jesus is a curious one indeed!
This is none other than a triumph of the skilful hand of Jehovah. Without
controversy, "great is the mystery of godliness, God manifest in the
flesh!"
His complexity is
INEXPLICABLE. How the Ancient of Days is an infant of days, how the Maker
and the made is one, how God becomes Immanuel, "God with us," is past
finding out. We believe and we love the incarnate mystery, content to leave
it a fathomless marvel.
"How it was done we can't
discuss:
But this we know, 'twas done for
us!"
He is not to be explained or
understood; but worshipped, prized, and trusted. (Samuel Gray, "The
Golden Girdle," The Gospel Herald 51 [1883]: 258)
