The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.
The tightly knit, solid and immovable layers of flesh belong to God's interrogation concerning the mysteries He has displayed in nature, mysteries that the greatest intellect cannot fathom and the most profound scholarship cannot resolve. Those interrogations were not posed to elicit answers but to direct attention to the profound hidden things of God and to impress the limitation of human wisdom. Even the common features of everyday surroundings thus confront finite creatures with much that exceeds their comprehension.
God is to be recognized as truly in what He withholds of Himself as in what He lays open to restricted understanding. In both revealed truth and the natural world He has set forth mysteries that require faith, keeping human beings continually seeking, continually questioning, continually gaining knowledge, while an unbounded expanse still remains beyond them.
The tightly knit, solid and immovable layers of flesh belong to God's interrogation concerning the mysteries He has displayed in nature, mysteries that the greatest intellect cannot fathom and the most profound scholarship cannot resolve. Those interrogations were not posed to elicit answers but to direct attention to the profound hidden things of God and to impress the limitation of human wisdom. Even the common features of everyday surroundings thus confront finite creatures with much that exceeds their comprehension.
God is to be recognized as truly in what He withholds of Himself as in what He lays open to restricted understanding. In both revealed truth and the natural world He has set forth mysteries that require faith, keeping human beings continually seeking, continually questioning, continually gaining knowledge, while an unbounded expanse still remains beyond them.