CONCERNING THE TRINITY. 309 known tobe constructedassuredlyof no associationsof bodily parts. For he issimpleand withoutany corporealcommixture, being whollyof thatessence,whatever itbe,which He alone knows constitutesHis being,sinceHe iscalledSpirit. And thus thosethingswhich inmen arefaultyand corrupting,since they arisefrom thecorruptibilityof thebody,and matteritself, in God cannot exertthe forceof corruptibility,since,as we have said,they have come, not of vice,but of reason. CHAPTEB VI. Argument. — And that,althoughScriptureoftenchangesthe divineappearanceintoa human form, yet themeasureof thedivinemajestyisnot includedwithintheselineaments of our bodilynature. And althoughthe heavenly Scriptureoftenturnsthe divine appearance into a human form,— as when it says, "The eyes of the Lord are overthe righteous;"1or when itsays, "The Lord God smelledthe smell of a good savour;"3or when there are given to Moses the tables" writtenwith the fingerof God ;"3or when the peopleof the childrenof Israel are setfree from the land of Egypt " with a mighty hand and with a stretchedout arm;"4 or when it says,"The mouth of the Lord hath spoken these things;"5 or when the earth is set forth as "God's footstool;"6or when it says," Inclinethine ear,and hear,"7— we who say thatthe law isspiritualdo not includewithintheselineamentsof our bodily nature any mode or figureof the divine majesty, but diffusethat characterof unbounded magnitude (so to speak) over itsplainswithout any limit. For it iswritten, " If I shallascend into heaven,Thou artthere; if I shall descend intohell,Thou arttherealso; and ifI shalltakemy wings, and go away acrossthe sea,there Thy hand shalllay 1 Ps.xxxiv.15. 2 Gen.viii.21. * Ex.xxxi.18. 4 Ps.cxxxvi.12. 4 Isa.i.20. 6 Isa.lxvi.1. 1 2 Chron.xix.16.