 | Perry Miller - 2009 - 260 sidor
...truths exactly as a telescope reveals new stars: and therefore they are said to be revealed, not because they were not before, as if the revealing of them gave a being unto them; but, even as a new light in the night discovers to us that which we did not see before, and as a prospective... | |
 | John Morgan - 1988 - 382 sidor
...[God's truths] and it [man's understanding]: and therefore they are said to be revealed, not because they were not before, as if the revealing of them gave a being unto them; but even as a new light in the night discovers to us that which we did not see before, and as a prospective... | |
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In this description, faith emerges, not as prostration on the road to Damascus, but as reason elevated. It enables us to see existing truths exactly as a telescope reveals new stars: . . . and therefore they are said to be revealed, not because they were... 