Nicene and Post-Nicene Church Fathers Series 2 - The Still Small ...

lessons, suited to our intelligence, while the Dispenser of our lots was ever leading us up,
by gradually accustoming us, like eyes brought up in the dark, to the great light of truth.
For He spares our weakness, and in the depth of the riches 1002 of His wisdom, and the inscrutable
judgments of His intelligence, used this gentle treatment, fitted for our needs,
gradually accustoming us to see first the shadows of objects, and to look at the sun in water,
to save us from dashing against the spectacle of pure unadulterated light, and being blinded.
Just so the Law, having a shadow of things to come, and the typical teaching of the prophets,
which is a dark utterance of the truth, have been devised means to train the eyes of the heart,
in that hence the transition to the wisdom hidden in mystery 1003 will be made easy. Enough
so far concerning types; nor indeed would it be possible to linger longer on this topic, or
the incidental discussion would become many times bulkier than the main argument.
1002 Rom. xi. 33.
1003 1 Cor. ii. 7.
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