covenant. The saying goes: “What great nation is there that has a god so near to it as the LORD our God is to us?” (Deut 4:7).1 We can sense, in Thomas’ words, a tone of triumphant joy at the way this saying from the Old Testament had acquired its true sublimity only in the Church, in God’s new people. For if, in Israel, God had humbled himself in his speaking to Moses, and had thus drawn near to his people, now he himself has taken flesh, has become a man among men, and has remained, so far remained