{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/211/2110451.htm","path":"chr/ecf/211/2110451.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/211/2110451.htm","text":"Of those things which are spoken of God anthropomorphically.\nFor if when these things are said of God they are to be understood literally in a material gross signification, then also He sleeps, as it is said, \u201cArise, wherefore sleepest thou, O Lord?\u201d 920 though it is elsewhere said of Him: \u201cBehold he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.\u201d 921 And He stands and sits, since He says, \u201cHeaven is my seat, and earth the footstool for my feet:\u201d 922 though He \u201cmeasure out the heaven with his hand, and holdeth the earth in his fist.\u201d 923 And He is \u201cdrunken with wine\u201d as it is said, \u201cThe Lord awoke like a sleeper, a mighty man, drunken with wine;\u201d 924 He \u201cwho only hath immortality and dwelleth in the light which no man can approach unto:\u201d 925 not to say anything of the \u201cignorance\u201d and \u201cforgetfulness,\u201d of which we often find mention in Holy Scripture: nor lastly of the outline of His limbs, which are spoken of as arranged and ordered like a man\u2019s; e.g., the hair, head, nostrils, eyes, face, hands, arms, fingers, belly, and feet: if we are willing to take all of which according to the bare literal sense, we must think of God as in fashion with the outline of limbs, and a bodily form; which indeed is shocking even to speak of, and must be far from our thoughts.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. XI: The Wor...","type":"page"}