2. Clouds and darkness are round about him. So the
Lord revealed himself at Sinai; so must he ever surround his essential Deity
when he shows himself to us, or his excessive glory would destroy us. There
must be a veiling of his infinite splendor if anything is to be seen by finite
beings. It is often thus with the Lord in providence; when working out designs
of unmingled love he conceals the purpose of his grace that it may be the more
clearly discovered at the end. Around the history of his church dark clouds of
persecution hover, and an awful gloom at times settles down; still the Lord is
there; and though people for a while see not the bright light in the clouds, it
bursts forth in due season to the confusion of the adversaries of the Gospel.
This passage should teach us the impertinence of attempting to pry into the
essence of the Godhead, the vanity of all endeavors to understand the mystery
of the Trinity in Unity, the arrogance of arraigning the Most High before the
bar of human reason, the folly of dictating to the Eternal One the manner in
which he should proceed.
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