TOHU-VA-VOHU II
himself; and what good have you ever done in the
world ?’
It is the Form of the transfigured Christ which,
like the pillar of fire at night during Israel’s journey
through the wilderness, moves on before us and so
lights up the valley of the shadow of death. We see
it enter the tunnel, as it were, and mark the track of
light before us. And then it comes out the other side,
and climbs the bright bank on which heaven has
lavished the beauty of an eternal spring.
All I really know of God—all I want to know of
- God—is in Christ. My God is only Godin Christ: I
know no other, and I do not want to know any other
than as there revealed.
It is a common mistake to speak of Scripture-
biographies. Scripture does not give us any bio-
graphy: it writes not any man’s life; it writes the
history of God’s purposes and dealings, and man
comes in so far as he is affected by them or reflects
them. Scripture traces the track of light in its
progress; and objects come in view as the light
necessarily falls on them. Hence the immense gaps