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| Everywhere God Wholly Filleth All Things, But Neither Heaven Nor Earth Containeth Him.
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Chapter III.—Everywhere God
Wholly Filleth All Things, But Neither Heaven Nor Earth Containeth
Him.
3. Since, then, Thou fillest heaven and earth,
do they contain Thee? Or, as they contain Thee not, dost Thou fill
them, and yet there remains something over? And where dost Thou
pour forth that which remaineth of Thee when the heaven and earth
are filled? Or, indeed, is there no need that Thou who containest
all things shouldest be contained of any, since those things which
Thou fillest Thou fillest by containing them? For the vessels which
Thou fillest do not sustain Thee, since should they even be broken
Thou wilt not be poured forth. And when Thou art poured forth on
us,132
Thou art not
cast down, but we are uplifted; nor art Thou dissipated, but we are
drawn together. But, as Thou fillest all things, dost Thou fill
them with Thy whole self, or, as even all things cannot altogether
contain Thee, do they contain a part, and do all at once contain
the same part? Or has each its own proper part—the greater more,
the smaller less? Is, then, one part of Thee greater, another less?
Or is it that Thou art wholly everywhere whilst nothing altogether
contains Thee?133
| 133 In this section, and constantly throughout the
Confessions, he adverts to the materialistic views concerning
God held by the Manichæans. See also sec. 10; iii. sec. 12; iv.
sec. 31, etc. etc. |
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