Chapter XXIX.—Although It is Said
Eight Times that “God Saw that It Was Good,” Yet Time Has No
Relation to God and His Word.
44. And I looked attentively to find whether seven
or eight times Thou sawest that Thy works were good, when they were
pleasing unto Thee; but in Thy seeing I found no times, by which I
might understand that thou sawest so often what Thou madest. And I
said, “O Lord,! is not this Thy Scripture true, since Thou art
true, and being Truth hast set it forth? Why, then, dost Thou say
unto me that in thy seeing there are no times, while this Thy
Scripture telleth me that what Thou madest each day, Thou sawest to
be good; and when I counted them I found how often?” Unto these
things Thou repliest unto me, for Thou art my God, and with strong
voice tellest unto Thy servant in his inner ear, bursting through
my deafness, and crying, “O man, that which My Scripture saith, I
say; and yet doth that speak in time; but time has no reference to
My Word, because My Word existeth in equal eternity with Myself. Thus those things which ye see through My Spirit, I see, just as those things which ye speak through My Spirit, I speak. And so when ye see those things in time, I see them not in time; as when ye speak them in time, I speak them not in time.”