basis, he rose from his soul to see the Creator: “When I first came to know you [God], you raised me up to make me see that what I saw is Being, and that I who saw am not yet Being. And you gave a shock to the weakness of my sight by the strong radiance of your rays, and I trembled with love and awe.”41 Augustine puts this insight into biblical terms by quoting Exodus 3:14, where God names himself “I am who am.”42 Finite participation in infinite Being allows for an analogy in which the dissimilarity
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