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| The Majesty of God is Supreme, and His Virtues Inexplicable.
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Chapter IV.—The Majesty of God is
Supreme, and His Virtues Inexplicable.
4. What, then, art Thou, O my God—what, I
ask, but the Lord God? For who is Lord but the Lord? or who is God
save our God?134
Most high,
most excellent, most potent, most omnipotent; most piteous and most
just; most hidden and most near; most beauteous and most strong,
stable, yet contained of none; unchangeable, yet changing all
things; never new, never old; making all things new, yet bringing
old age upon the proud and they know it not; always working, yet
ever at rest; gathering, yet needing nothing; sustaining,
pervading, and protecting; creating, nourishing, and developing;
seeking, and yet possessing all things. Thou lovest, and burnest
not; art jealous, yet free from care; repentest, and hast no
sorrow; art angry, yet serene; changest Thy ways, leaving unchanged
Thy plans; recoverest what Thou findest, having yet never lost; art
never in want, whilst Thou rejoicest in gain; never covetous,
though requiring usury.135
That Thou mayest owe, more than
enough is given to Thee;136
| 136 Supererogatur tibi, ut debeas. | yet who hath anything that is not
Thine? Thou payest debts while owing nothing; and when Thou
forgivest debts, losest nothing. Yet, O my God, my life, my holy
joy, what is this that I have said? And what saith any man when He
speaks of Thee? Yet woe to them that keep silence, seeing that even
they who say most are as the dumb.137
| 137 “As it is impossible for mortal, imperfect, and
perishable man to comprehend the immortal, perfect and eternal, we
cannot expect that he should be able to express in praise the
fulness of God’s attributes. The Talmud relates of a rabbi, who
did not consider the terms, ‘the great, mighty, and fearful
God,’ which occur in the daily prayer, as being sufficient, but
added some more attributes—‘What!’ exclaimed another rabbi
who was present, ‘imaginest thou to be able to exhaust the praise
of God? Thy praise is blasphemy. Thou hadst better be quiet.’
Hence the Psalmist’s exclamation, after finding that the praises
of God were inexhaustible: הלהת הּימוד ךל,
‘Silence is praise to Thee.’”—Breslau. |
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