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Horeb; in the pillar of cloud and of fire during the forty-year desert wanderings; in the Covenant’s Arc and in the Holy of Holies of the Tabernacle and of the Jerusalem Temple; and in Christ’s transfiguration, His translucence.
It is His natural, free Spirit, ever hovering over the primeval waters, that signifies life, blessings, and order: the very innate “force that through the green fuse drives the flower,” as Mr. Dylan Thomas poetically perceives. Yet the Spirit-Word is also life’s destroyer; for not only is His Eternal Word the force that drives the beauties of the lyrical waters, but also the force of tempests deep, drowning all things, flooding all things, and filling all things with the breath of melancholy and despair. The Living Word is like the Living Waters of Pauline love: it fortifies and refreshes, it nurtures and it gives life, it sustains all things, cleanses all things, loves all things, just as the baptismal waters purify all beings in their flowing towards a New Creation. The natural Word Divine, filled with faith, filled with love, is as holy as the flowing waters: it is free from stagnation. It is evergreen. Yet the Living Word, like the waters, when beyond measure’s measure, indomitably so, overflows: it floods, and drowns all things and dissipates all things, bringing forth death, affliction and immeasurable grief and chaos.
Yahweh, the beloved Spirit of the living waters, appears as the God of the infinite Word dancing over Life and over Chaos, moving His Spirit over the waters of history’s high and low tides. His Word aims not at the Grecian Idea of the Good, per se, but at salvation’s ways, justified by deed (OT) or by faith (NT). His
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