...(They all proclaim to him that hath an ear, we made not ourselves, He made us, Who abideth forever.) But suppose that having delivered their message, they...nor in any similitude, but His voice Whom we love in His creatures. Suppose we heard Him without any intermediary at all. Just now we reached out, and with...

...Himself, so that we may hear His word, not through any tongue of flesh nor angel's voice nor sound of thunder, nor in any similitude, but His voice whom we love in these His creatures — may hear His Very Self without intermediary at all — as now we reached forth and with one flash...

...peace, turning the ear to him who made them, and if he alone spoke, not by them but for himself, and we heard his word, not by any fleshly tongue, nor...but his voice whom we love in these his creatures — if we heard him without the intermediation by any of these things — Just now we reached out,...

...sensuous revelations, and every tongue and every symbol; if all that comes and goes were hushed . . . turning their ear to Him who made them, and that He alone spoke, not by them, but for Himself . . . suppose we heard Him without any intermediary at all ... might not eternal life be like this...

...that we may hear His word, not through any tongue of flesh nor angel's voice nor sound of thunder, not in any similitude, but His voice whom we love in these His creatures — may hear His Very Self without intermediary at all — as now we reached forth and with one flash...