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FOR if when these things are said of God they are to be understood
literally in a material gross signification, then also He sleeps, as it is
said, "Arise, wherefore sleepest thou, O Lord?" though it is elsewhere
said of Him: "Behold he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor
sleep." And He stands and sits, since He says, "Heaven is my seat, and
earth the footstool for my feet:" though He "measure out the heaven with
his hand, and holdeth the earth in his fist." And He is "drunken with
wine" as it is said, "The Lord awoke like a sleeper, a mighty man, drunken
with wine;" He "who only hath immortality and dwelleth in the light
which no man can approach unto:" not to say anything of the "ignorance"
and "forgetfulness," of which we often find mention in Holy Scripture: nor
lastly of the outline of His limbs, which are spoken of as arranged and
ordered like a man's; e.g., the hair, head, nostrils, eyes, face, hands,
arms, fingers, belly, and feet: if we are willing to take all of which
according to the bare literal sense, we must think of God as in fashion
with the outline of limbs, and a bodily form; which indeed is shocking even
to speak of, and must be far from our thoughts.
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