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Chapter XX.
Now, to those who are capable of understanding
him, the apostle manifestly presents to view “things which are
the objects of perception,” calling them “things
seen;” while he terms “unseen,” things which are the
object of the understanding, and cognisable by it alone. He
knows, also, that things “seen” and visible are
“temporal,” but that things cognisable by the mind, and
“not seen,” are “eternal;” and desiring to
remain in the contemplation of these, and being assisted by his earnest
longing for them, he deemed all affliction as “light” and
as “nothing,” and during the season of afflictions and
troubles was not at all bowed down by them, but by his contemplation of
(divine) things deemed every calamity a light thing, seeing we also
have “a great High Priest,” who by the greatness of His
power and understanding “has passed through the heavens, even
Jesus the Son of God,” who has promised to all that have truly
learned divine things, and have lived lives in harmony with them, to go
before them to the things that are supra-mundane; for His words
are: “That where I go, ye may be also.”4385
And therefore we hope, after the
troubles and struggles which we suffer here, to reach the highest
heavens,4386
| 4386 πρὸς ἄκροις
τοῖς
οὐρανοῖς. | and receiving,
agreeably to the teaching of Jesus, the fountains of water that spring
up unto eternal life, and being filled with the rivers of
knowledge,4387
| 4387 ποταμοὺς
τῶν
θεωρήματων. | shall be united
with those waters that are said to be above the heavens, and which
praise His name. And as many of us4388
| 4388 For ὅσον γε Boherellus proposes
ὅσοι γε, which is adopted in the
translation. | as
praise Him shall not be carried about by the revolution of the heaven,
but shall be ever engaged in the contemplation of the invisible things
of God, which are no longer understood by us through the things which
He hath made from the creation of the world, but seeing, as it was
expressed by the true disciple of Jesus in these words, “then
face to face;”4389
and in these,
“When that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part
will be done away.”4390
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