To be near unto God - pagina 605

declares that

God

dwells in the high and lofty

this same God down upon the children of men on earth. Heaven and earth are not intended to be sep-

place,

it

immediately adds that

looks

form a higher unity, so that the dwells simultaneously both in God earth. It began like this. dwelt in Paradise and originally the fellowship of man with God and of God with his creature was The separation only verj' real and unbroken. came when by sin man expelled God from this earth, .drove him out of his own creation and from fellowship with his own most exalted creature. But God takes no pleasure in this. Expelled by sin, he returns in seeking grace. "Adam, where art thou?" is the call of God, with which he returns, and claims his world again. At length God regains his abode on the earth. Provisionally in the cloud, in the column of fire and in the tabernacle, but fully symbolical on arated, but to

Lord our God heaven and on

Zion. "This is my habitation. This is my rest," said the Lord, "here will I dwell" (Ps. 132:14). Zion by the side of Bashan indicates that God is still expelled from the world at large, but that in Zion he has prepared a place of rest for himself, an oasis of grace, a habitation of his own. This sacred symbolical return of God to this world prophesied age upon age in advance the glorious Bethlehem event. And when at length the fullness of time is come, and the Babe is born in Bethlehem, God no longer dwells sjmibolically in Zion, but in full reality in Christ. And therefore the Apostles preach with so much delight that God has been revealed in the flesh, and that re597

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