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Chapter
XXXIII.
As Celsus supposes that we uphold the doctrine of
the resurrection in order that we may see and know God, he thus follows
out his notions on the subject: “After they have been
utterly refuted and vanquished, they still, as if regardless of all
objections, come back again to the same question, ‘How then shall
we see and know God? how shall we go to Him?’” Let
any, however, who are disposed to hear us observe, that if we have need
of a body for other purposes, as for occupying a material locality to
which this body must be adapted, and if on that account the
“tabernacle” is clothed in the way we have shown, we have
no need of a body in order to know God. For that which sees God
is not the eye of the body; it is the mind which is made in the image
of the Creator,4752
| 4752 Bouhèreau follows
the reading, “the mind which sees what is made in the image of
the Creator.” | and which God has
in His providence rendered capable of that knowledge. To see God
belongs to the pure heart, out of which no longer proceed “evil
thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness,
blasphemies, the evil eye,”4753
| 4753 Matt. xv. 19 and vi. 23. | or any other
evil thing. Wherefore it is said, “Blessed are the pure in
heart, for they shall see God.”4754
But as the strength of our will is not
sufficient to procure the perfectly pure heart, and as we need that God
should create it, he therefore who prays as he ought, offers this
petition to God, “Create in me a clean heart, O
God.”4755
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