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| Chapter CXXVII.—These passages of Scripture do not apply to the Father, but to the Word.
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Chapter CXXVII.—These passages of
Scripture do not apply to the Father, but to the Word.
“These and other such sayings are
recorded by the lawgiver and by the prophets; and I suppose that I have
stated sufficiently, that wherever2448
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says, ‘God went up from Abraham,’2449
or, ‘The Lord spake to Moses,’2450
and ‘The Lord came down to behold the tower which the sons
of men had built,’2451
or when ‘God shut Noah
into the ark,’2452
you must not imagine that
the unbegotten God Himself came down or went up from any place. For the
ineffable Father and Lord of all neither has come to any place, nor
walks, nor sleeps, nor rises up, but remains in His own place, wherever
that is, quick to behold and quick to hear, having neither eyes nor ears,
but being of indescribable might; and He sees all things, and knows all
things, and none of us escapes His observation; and He is not moved or
confined to a spot in the whole world, for He existed before the world
was made. How, then, could He talk with any one, or be seen by any one,
or appear on the smallest portion of the earth, when the people at Sinai
were not able to look even on the glory of Him who was sent from Him; and
Moses himself could not enter into the tabernacle which he had erected,
when it was filled with the glory of God; and the priest could not endure
to stand before the temple when Solomon conveyed the ark into the house
in Jerusalem which he had built for it? Therefore neither Abraham, nor
Isaac, nor Jacob, nor any other man, saw the Father and ineffable Lord of
all, and also of Christ, but [saw] Him who was according to His will His
Son, being God, and the Angel because He ministered to His will; whom
also it pleased Him to be born man by the Virgin; who also was fire when
He conversed with Moses from the bush. Since, unless we thus comprehend
the Scriptures, it must follow that the Father and Lord of all had not
been in heaven when what Moses wrote took place: ‘And the Lord
rained upon Sodom fire and brimstone from the Lord out of
heaven;’2453
and again, when it is thus
said by David: ‘Lift up your gates, ye rulers; and be ye lift up,
ye everlasting gates; and the King of glory shall enter;’2454
and again, when He says: ‘The Lord says
to my Lord, Sit at My right hand, till I make Thine enemies Thy
footstool.’2455
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