Psalm 27:9

Psalm 27:9

In St Paul’s famous essay on love he writes about how one day we will see God face to face but for now we see ‘through a glass, darkly’ (1 Corinthians 13.12 kjv). It’s a poetic phrase conveying the original Greek which literally says that we see through a glass not darkly but ‘in an enigma’. In our desire to know God fully, as fully as we are known by him, we are limited by our earthly existence. We do not, as it were, have the language of heaven to speak of God: all that we have are enigmas, parables, pictures, similes, allegories and metaphors. That is why theology, even as ‘Queen of the Sciences’, is such an inexact one...