Saturday, February 16, 2013

AC 4383 - we do not see all that the Lord sees

AC 4383
. . . all things both in general and in particular
are foreseen by the Lord,
even what they will be to eternity.
For this reason
no other general truths are conjoined with good
in the person who is being regenerated,
than such as can have particular truths fitted into them,
and within these singular ones.

But still these particulars,
even the singulars of the particulars,
are nothing but generals
relatively to those which exist beyond them;
for there are indefinite things yet in every single entity.
The angels
(who . . . relatively to man are in wisdom so great
that there are unutterable things
which they know and perceive)
also confess
that they know only the relatively most general things,
and that those which they do not know are indefinite
- they dare not say infinite,
because there is no relation and no ratio
between the finite and the infinite!
From this we can also infer of what nature is the Word,
which being Divine,
from its first origin contains within itself infinite things;
and consequently unutterable things
that belong to angelic wisdom;
and finally only such things
as are adapted to human comprehension.

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