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Chapter
LXVI.
Let us look also at his next statement, in which
he introduces, as it were, a certain person, who, after hearing what
has been said, expresses himself in the following manner, “How,
then, shall I know God? and how shall I learn the way that leads to
Him? And how will you show Him to me? Because now, indeed,
you throw darkness before my eyes, and I see nothing
distinctly.” He then answers, as it were, the individual
who is thus perplexed, and thinks that he assigns the reason why
darkness has been poured upon the eyes of him who uttered the foregoing
words, when he asserts that “those whom one would lead forth out
of darkness into the brightness of light, being unable to withstand its
splendours, have their power of vision affected4625
and injured, and so imagine that they are smitten with
blindness.” In answer to this, we would say that all those
indeed sit in darkness, and are rooted in it, who fix their gaze upon
the evil handiwork of painters, and moulders and sculptors, and who
will not look upwards, and ascend in thought from all visible and
sensible things, to the Creator of all things, who is light; while, on
the other hand, every one is in light who has followed the radiance of
the Word, who has shown in consequence of what ignorance, and impiety,
and want of knowledge of divine things these objects were worshipped
instead of God, and who has conducted the soul of him who desires to be
saved towards the uncreated God, who is over all. For “the
people that sat in darkness—the Gentiles—saw a great light,
and to them who sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung
up,”4626
—the God
Jesus. No Christian, then, would give Celsus, or any accuser of
the divine Word, the answer, “How shall I know God?” for
each one of them knows
God according to his capacity. And no one asks, “How shall
I learn the way which leads to Him?” because he has heard Him who
says, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life,”4627
and has tasted, in the course of the
journey, the happiness which results from it. And not a single
Christian would say to Celsus, “How will you show me
God?”E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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