It is
not fitted, therefore, to see the Infinity of God, and thus God, as He
is in Himself, but can see God from behind in shadow; as it is said of
Moses, when he asked to see God, that he was placed in a cleft of the
rock, and saw His hinder side. It is enough to acknowledge God from
things finite, that is, created, in which He is infinitely.
--_True Christian Religion, n._ 28
"INTO HIS MARVELLOUS LIGHT"
We read in the Word that Jehovah God dwells in light inaccessible.
Who, then, could approach Him, unless He had come to dwell in
accessible light, that is, unless He had descended and assumed a
Humanity and in it had become the Light of the world? Who cannot see
that to approach Jehovah the Father in His light is as impossible as
to take the wings of the morning and to fly with them to the sun?
--_True Christian Religion, n._ 176
THE CHRIST-GOD
We ought to have faith in God the Saviour, Jesus Christ, because that
is faith in the visible God in Whom is the Invisible; and faith in the
visible God, Who is at once Man and God, enters into man. For while
faith is spiritual in essence it is natural in form, for everything
spiritual, in order to be anything with a man, is received by him in
what is natural.
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