Thomas Watson on the beauty of Christ

"Believers have an honorable esteem of Christ. The psalmist speaks like one capitaved with Christ's amazing beauty: 'there is none upon earth I desire beside thee (psalm 73:25).' He did not say he had nothing; he had many comforts on earth, but he desired none but God; as if a wife should say that there is no-one's company she prizes like her husband's. How did david prize Christ? 'Thou art fairer than the children of men (psalm 45:2).' The spouse in the song of solomon looked upon Christ as the Coriphaeus, the most incomparable one, 'the chiefest among then thousand (song 5:10).' Christ outvies all others: 'As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons (song 2:3).' Christ infinitely more excels all the beauties and glories of this visible world than the apple tree surpasses the trees of the wild forest. Paul so prized Christ that he made him his chief study: 'I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ (1 Cor. 2:2). He judged nothing else of value." Thomas Watson