Divine Love and Wisdom (Harleys) n. 59

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59. From these premises it can be established that the Divine is in each and every thing of the created universe, and consequently that the created universe is the work of Jehovah's hands, as is said in the Word, that is, the work of Divine Love and Divine Wisdom, for these are understood by "Jehovah's hands". Yet although the Divine is in each and every thing of the created universe, still there is in their esse nothing of the Divine in itself. For the created universe is not God but is from God; and because it is from God, there is in it an image of Him like the image of a man in a mirror, wherein indeed the man appears, while yet there is nothing of the man in it.


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