Verse 16
16. Only hath immortality So Justin Martyr says: “God is said alone to have immortality, because he has it, not from another’s will, as all other immortals have, but from his own essence.” All other substances disintegrate; all other beings decay and die; it is only as God holds them together, and pours vitality into them, that they are kept in being and life. And we must acknowledge the same dependence upon God for continued existence in a thinking substance, unless we maintain that brutes and insects are immortal. And so from him comes the power of consciousness in a thinking intelligence; unless we maintain that our souls are still conscious, not only in sleep, but in a swoon.
Light… approach unto Inhabiting inapproachable light A sphere of living light, too intense and dazzling for finite mind to face and approach.
No man… can see He is so intensely luminous as to be to us a darkness; “dark with excess of light.”
A modern philosopher doubts of God because he is a vast incomprehensibility. He should also doubt of light, for the luminiferous ether is at once too vast for our mind to grasp, and too subtle, if not too luminous, for our eyes to see. He should doubt of gravitation; for he can never see it, (but by its efforts;) he can neither imagine its immensity, nor draw around it limitations; yet he knows its existence, and that it rules with its forces every particle of our bodies, every moment of our lives.
Honour and power Greek, κρατος , force. God is the author and controller of all forces. Note 1 Timothy 1:17.
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