Andrew Louth - Syriac Christian Church

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God, naturally fitting and most appropriate, since they needed
nothing external for perfection, just as the divine oracles in the
law and the prophets were plainly established to all those who
were not ignorant. Both David and Hezekiah, especially,
indicated enigmatically something of this to others in the
events that happened to them, the one seeking pardon of God
in the manner of the law on account of his sin, 75 the other
being magnified with increase of life by God with another
ordinance that went beyond the law. 76
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That the one who follows Christ transcends law
and nature
Nothing, I think, hinders one who has been prepared by the
laws, that is the natural and the written, from becoming
worthy of God and loved by God through these, and beyond
these from following faithfully in pure faith the Word that
leads to the highest point of the good. Nor does anything at all
that is grasped by the mind, by deed, or thought, or conception,
to which is subject the nature and knowledge of whatever
either is conceived or simply is, or by which it is made
manifest, hinder one from following faithfully Jesus who has
passed through the heavens, or from being able to receive from
the manifestation of the divine light the true knowledge of
reality, so far as this is possible to human beings.
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Contemplation of the same 77
TEXTS 121
For the whole nature of reality is divided into the intelligible
and the sensible. 78 There is that which is said to be and is
eternal, since it receives the beginning of its being in eternity,
and that which is temporal, since it is made in time; there is
that which is subject to intellection, and that which is subject
to the power of sense-perception. The entities on each side of
this division are naturally related to each other through an
indissoluble power that binds them together. Manifold is the
relation between intellects and what they perceive and
between the senses and what they experience. Thus the
human being, consisting of both soul and sensible body, by
means of its natural relationship of belonging to each division
of creation, is both circumscribed and circum-B scribes:
through being, it is circumscribed and through potency, it