From Abba Isaak the Syrian:
Even if such words as wrath, anger, hatred, and many meager others are pressed into speaking of the Creator, we should not suppose that He ever does anything in anger or hatred or zeal.
Many such figures are employed in the roiling span of Scripture, provisional terms far removed from Who He Is.
Even as our own, relatively rational persons have already been tweaked, increasingly if slowly made more competent in holy understanding of the Mystery -- namely, that we should not take things quite so literally, but should suspect (concealed within the corporal surface of unlikely narratives) a hidden providence and eternal knowledge guiding all – so too we shall in future come to see the sweep of many things to be quite contrary to what our current, puerile processes afford us.
-- Saint Isaac of Nineveh
yes,
let anyone press out the contents of Mystery and explain.
the expressed fruit of God, is love.
Posted by: adit | August 26, 2010 at 01:33 PM
I was just reading some St. Isaak of Nineveh an hour ago or so.
Posted by: Brian Zahnd | August 26, 2010 at 01:23 PM