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The Sun and the Creator

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 16, 1881

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 7, No. 23.

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The Sun and the Creator

WHEN the Emperor Trajan insisted on Rabbi Joshua showing him God, who he said is everywhere, the Rabbi led him out into the open air and said, "Suppose you first look upon one of his ambassadors," and bade him look at the sun. "I cannot see," said Trajan, "the light dazzles me." Then said the Rabbi, "Thou art unable to bear the light of one of his creatures; how then couldst thou look upon the Creator? The sight would annihilate thee."