5. Paul was a heaven, when he said:
“Our conversation is in heaven.” Phil. iii. 20. James and John were heavens, and
then were called “sons of thunder”; S. Mark iii. 17. and John, being as it were a heaven, saw
the Word with God. S. John i. 1. The Lord
Jesus Himself was a heaven of perpetual light, when He was declaring
the glory of God, that glory which no man had seen before. And
therefore He said: “No man hath seen God at any time,
except the only-begotten Son, Who is in the bosom of the Father, He
hath declared Him.” S. John i. 17, 18. If you
seek for the handiwork of God, listen to Job when he says:
“The Spirit of God Who hath made me.” Job xxxiii. 4. And so strengthened against the
temptations of the devil, he kept his footsteps constantly without
offence. But let us go on to what follows.