“The Majesty, or as holy David calls it, the Glory, is manifested among the creatures that it has produced and governs. These are the back parts of God, which he leaves behind him, as tokens of himself like the shadows and reflection of the sun in the water, which show the sun to our weak eyes, because we cannot look a…”
Gregory of Nazianzus, 4th c. — ON THEOLOGY, THEOLOGICAL ORATION 2(28).3
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1O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.
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— Psalms 8:1 —
2Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.
3When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;