He alone declares the ' System of the Heavens.'' 375 eternal preaching. Whence the Lord now also says rightly Book to blessed Job; Wlio ivill declare the system of the Jteavens, ^^^ and who will make the harmony of heaven to sleep ? For what is meant by the system of the heavens, but the inward power of secrets? What is signified by the harmony of heaven, but the accordant language of preachers? When our Creator therefore has begun to relate the system of the heavens. He makes the harmony of heaven to sleep; doubt- less, because when He is manifested to us in visible appear- ance, the words of preachers are withdrawn. For hence the Lord says by Jeremiah; A man shall no longer teach his Jer. 3], neighbour and his brother, saying, Know the Lord; for all shall know Me, from the least of 1hem unto the greatest, sailh the Lord. Hence Paul says. Whether prophecies, i Cor. they shall be made void; whether tongues, they shall cease; '^' ^* tvhether knowledge, it shall be destroyed. Or certainly the system of the heavens is that very vivifying power which forms the spirits of angels. For as God is the Cause of causes, and as He is the Life of the living, so is He the Reason^ of"Ratio.' reasonable creatures. The Lord therefore then declares the system^ of the heavens, when He brings Himself before us,^ 'Ra- as to the way in which He rules over Elect spirits. He ' " ^' then relates the system of the heavens, when the mist of our mind is wiped away, and He manifests Himself to us in bright vision. Whence the Lord also says in the Gospel; The hour comelh when I shall no longer speak unto youm John 1 6, proverbs, but I shall sheiv you plainly of the Father. For^^* He asserts that He shews plainly of the Father, because by the appearance of His Majesty, which was then manifested, He shews both how He springs from the Father not un- equal to Himself, and how the Spirit of Both proceeds coeternal with Both. For we shall then openly behold, how That Which Is by an origin, is not subsequent to Him from Whom It springs; how He Who is produced by procession, is not preceded by Those ^ from Whom He proceeded. We ^ Plural, shall then behold openly how both The One is divisiblyg^gj'' Three, and the Three indivisibly One. The tongue ofGod note. then Who then speaks, is the visible brightness of God exalting us. And the harmony of heaven will then sleep, because when the Rewarder ofour works appears in judgment.