Chapter II.—That the God Whom We
Invoke is in Us, and We in Him.
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.”
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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?
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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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Ps. cxxxix. 8
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Rom. xi. 36
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Jer. xxiii. 24
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