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2. And how shall I call upon my God my God and my Lord? For
when I call on Him I ask Him to come into me. And what place is
there in me into which my God can come into which God can come,
even He who made heaven and earth? Is there anything in me, O Lord
my God, that can contain Thee? Do indeed the very heaven and the
earth, which Thou hast made, and in which Thou hast made me,
contain Thee? Or, as nothing could exist without Thee, doth
whatever exists contain Thee? Why, then, do I ask Thee to come
into me, since I indeed exist, and could not exist if Thou wert not
in me? Because I am not yet in hell, though Thou art even there;
for "if I go down into hell Thou art there.'' t I could not
therefore exist, could not exist at all, O my God, unless Thou
wert in me. Or should I not rather say, that I could not exist
unless I were in Thee from whom are all things, by whom are all
things, in whom are all things?' Even so, Lord; even so. Where
do I call Thee to, since Thou art in me, or whence canst Thou come
into me? For where outside heaven and earth can I go that from thence
my God may come into me who has said, I fill heaven and earth"?
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