Kuyper situates this vision of God in the sacrament in between the symbolic vision of God in the tabernacle and the temple and the real vision of God in the hereafter.6 Since neither of these is available to us today, God gives us a vision of himself in the sacraments. In the marvel of the sacraments, claims Kuyper, “the ear moves into the background, and the spoken word merely provides assistance. Meanwhile, the eye—and through the eye also the soul itself—is active, and you discern something of