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    Chapter XIII.—That the Renewal of Man is Not Completed in This World.

    14. But as yet “by faith, not by sight,”1218

    1218 2 Cor. v. 7.

    for “we are saved by hope; but hope that is seen is not hope.”1219

    1219 Rom. viii. 24.

    As yet deep calleth unto deep1220

    1220 The “deep” Augustin interprets (as do the majority of Patristic commentators), in Ps. xli. 8, sec. 13, to be the heart of man; and the “deep” that calls unto it, is the preacher who has his own “deep” of infirmity, even as Peter had.

    but in “the noise of Thy waterspouts.”1221

    1221 Ps. xlii. 7.

    And as yet doth he that saith, I “could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal,”1222

    1222 1 Cor. iii. 1.

    even he, as yet, doth not count himself to have apprehended, and forgetteth those things which are behind, and reacheth forth to those things which are before,1223

    1223 Phil. iii. 13.

    and groaneth being burdened;1224

    1224 2 Cor. v. 2; 4.

    and his soul thirsteth after the living God, as the hart after the water-brooks, and saith, “When shall I come?”1225

    1225 Ps. xlii. 1, 2.

    “desiring to be clothed upon with his house which is from heaven;”1226

    1226 2 Cor. v. 2.

    and calleth upon this lower deep, saying, “Be not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.”1227

    1227 Rom. xii. 2.

    And, “Be not children in understanding, howbeit in malice be ye children,” that in “understanding ye may be perfect;”1228

    1228 1 Cor. xiv. 20 (margin).

    and “O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you?”1229

    1229 Gal. iii. 1.

    But now not in his own voice, but in Thine who sentest Thy Spirit from above;1230

    1230 Acts ii. 19.

    through Him who “ascended up on high,”1231

    1231 Eph. iv. 8.

    and set open the flood-gates of His gifts,1232

    1232 Mal. iii. 10.

    that the force of His streams might make glad the city of God.1233

    1233 Ps. xlvi. 4.

    For, for Him doth “the friend of the bridegroom”1234

    1234 John iii. 29.

    sigh, having now the first-fruits of the Spirit laid up with Him, yet still groaning within himself, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of his body;1235

    1235 Rom. viii. 23.

    to Him he sighs, for he is a member of the Bride; for Him is he jealous, for he is the friend of the Bridegroom;1236

    1236 John iii. 29.

    for Him is he jealous, not for himself; because in the voice of Thy “waterspouts,”1237

    1237 Ps. xlii. 7.

    not in his own voice, doth he call on that other deep, for whom being jealous he feareth, lest that, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so their minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in our Bridegroom, Thine only Son.1238

    1238 2 Cor. xi. 3, and 1 John iii. 3.

    What a light of beauty will that be when “we shall see Him as He is,”1239

    1239 Ibid. ver. 2.

    and those tears be passed away which “have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?”1240

    1240 Ps. xlii. 3.

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