While reading
a volume by George Lamsa, I came across the following which uses “spiritual eye”
in contrast with “physical eyes” for a vision, and yet, such happens in space
and time and is a real event, not a mere trance or hallucinatory event; one
should compare and contrast with my post "Spiritual
Eyes" in pre-1830 Literature:
They Saw God
And upon the
nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand; also they saw God, and
did not eat and drink.
Exod. 24:11
“They saw God” does not mean they saw his
figure or that they saw him, as one sees a human being; but they saw his divine
presence, his glory, his majesty, and the beauty of his habitation. Sapphire
stones and the clarity of the space in which they beheld him are symbolic of
his holiness
God is spirit and he can be seen only with spiritual eyes . . .
. . .
No One Has Seen God
And he sad,
Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no more see me, and live.
Exod. 33:20
God is the Eternal Spirit. No one can behold the spirit with physical eyes. (George M.
Lamsa, Old Testament Light: The Indispensable
Guide to the Customs, Manners, and Idioms of Biblical Times [San Francisco:
Harper and Row Publishers, 1964], 152, 160, emphasis added)
