Above the same eye of my soul, above my mind, the Light Unchangeable. Not this ordinary light, which all flesh may look upon, nor as it were a greater of the same kind, as though the brightness of this should be manifold brighter, and with its greatness take up all space. Not such was this light, but other, yea, far other from all these.Augustine of Hippo
The Confessions, Book VII, Chapter X (Library of Fathers, Oxford 1838)
Augustine is careful about what this light is not. It is not the ordinary light that any flesh may look upon, and it is not that same light made brighter or made to fill more space. He refuses the comparison twice, because the nearest thing a reader will reach for is the wrong thing.
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