To be near unto God - pagina 581

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THE LORD THY GOD, AM A JEALOUS GOD."

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people," said the Lord to Ezekiel: I know the things that come into your mind, pvcry one of them" (Ezekiel 11:5). Hence also he knows what should, but does not, come into it. \- itiier the all-seeing eye nor the all-hearing ear he Holy One of Israel are ever impeded. The it of that eye penetrates into everything, and no vibration escapes the hearing of that ear. In one of the marble tombs at Syracuse the tyrant Dionysius was able to build a wondrously farcarr>'ing echo, that he might overhear the conversations of his captured opponents. Even now this echo clearly returns the crackling of a sheet of paper at a distance of several hundred feet, and as the stor>' runs, nothing kept tliese prisoners in check like this so-called "ear of Dionysius." They could not put it out of mind. They thought It ruled their spirit and of it with every word.

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This is what these wretched prisoners did for the sake of the ear of a man. And what do we do about the holy ear of the all-hearing God? What do we do for him who does not only see and see through everything we do, but to whom it passes over also every word is known before thoughts, our lips. Yea, who moreover scans the which we will never put into words, and who is motion every aware of every impulse, every crystallize itself within vibration, which will never which nevertheless comes us into a thought, but does not believe, experiinto our mind. He who 677

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