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41. O Lord my God, what is that secret place of Thy mystery,
and how far thence have the consequences of my transgressions cast me?
Heal my eyes, that I may enjoy Thy light. Surely, if there be a
mind, so greatly abounding in knowledge and foreknowledge, to which
all things past and future are so known as one psalm is well known to
me, that mind is exceedingly wonderful, and very astonishing; because
whatever is so past, and whatever is to come of after ages, is no more
concealed from Him than was it hidden from me when singing that psalm,
what and how much of it had been sung from the beginning, what and how
much remained unto the end. But far be it that Thou, the Creator of
the universe, the Creator of souls and bodies, far be it that
Thou shouldest know all things future and past. Far, far more
wonderfully, and far more mysteriously, Thou knowest them. For it
is not as the feelings of one singing known things, or hearing a known
song, are through expectation of future words, and in remembrance
of those that are past varied, and his senses divided, that
anything happeneth unto Thee, unchangeably eternal, that is, the
truly eterna. Creator of minds. As, then, Thou in the Beginning
knewest the heaven and the earth without any change of Thy knowledge,
so in the Beginning didst Thou make heaven and earth without any
distraction of Thy action? Let him who understandeth confess unto
Thee; and let him who understandeth not, confess unto Thee. Oh,
how exalted art Thou, and yet the humble in heart are Thy
dwelling-place; for Thou raisest up those that are bowed down. and
they whose exaltation Thou art fall not.
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