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Knowledge of God |
But if the essence is unknowable, the manifestations of its
bounty are everywhere apparent. If the first cause cannot be
conceived, its effects appeal to our every faculty. Just as
knowledge of a painter’s pictures gives to the connoisseur a
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true knowledge of the artist, so knowledge of the universe in
any of its aspects—knowledge of nature or of human nature, of
things visible or of things invisible—is knowledge of God’s
handiwork, and gives to the seeker for Divine truth a real knowledge
of His Glory. “The Heavens declare the glory of God; and
the firmament sheweth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth
speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.—Ps. xix, 1–2.
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