If I should ask thee how great dwellings are in the midst of the sea, or how many springs are in the beginning of the deep, or how many springs are above the firmament, or which are the outgoings of paradise: Peradventure thou would say unto me, ‘I never went down into the deep, nor as yet into hell, neither did I ever climb up into heaven. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Nevertheless now have I asked thee but only of the fire and wind, and of the day where-through thou hast passed, and of things from which thou canst not be separated, and yet canst thou give me no answer of them. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Thine own things, and such as are grown up with thee, canst thou not know; How should thy vessel then be able to comprehend the way of the Highest, and, the world being now outwardly corrupted to understand the corruption that is evident in my sight? Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
It were better that we were not at all, than that we should live still in wickedness, and to suffer, and not to know wherefore. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Go thy way, weigh me the weight of the fire, or measure me the blast of the wind, or call me again the day that is past. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
As thou hast said unto thy servant, that thou, which gives life to all, hast given life at once to the creature that thou hast created, and the creature bare it: even so it might now also bear them that now be present at once. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Ask the womb of a woman, and say unto her, If thou bring forth children, why dost thou it not together, but one after another? pray her therefore to bring forth ten children at once. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Behold, O Lord, yet art thou nigh unto them that be reserved till the end: and what shall they do that have been before me, or we that be now, or they that shall come after us? Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I will liken my judgment unto a ring: like as there is no slackness of the last, even so there is no swiftness of the first. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>