110. If, then, any one desires to see this
Image of God, he must love God, that he may be loved by God; and be no
longer a servant but a friend, because he has kept the commandments of
God, that he may enter into the cloud where God is. Ex. xxiv. 15. Let him make to himself two
reasonable trumpets of beaten work of proved silver, that is, composed
of precious words and adorned, from which not a harsh shrill sound with
dread-inspiring voice may be uttered, but high thanks to God may be
poured forth with continuous exultation. For by the voice of such
trumpets the dead are raised, not indeed by the sound of the metal, but
aroused by the word of truth. And perchance it is those two
trumpets by which Paul, through the Divine Spirit, spake when he
said: “I will pray with the Spirit, and I will pray with
the understanding, I will sing with the Spirit, and I will sing with
the understanding;” 1 Cor. xiv. 15. for the one
without the other seems by no means to have perfect
utterance.