18. Anyone can come to an inner assurance about the presence of infinite things in God--anyone, that is, who believes that God is a person; because if God is a person, he has a body and everything that having a body entails. So he has a face, torso, abdomen, upper legs, and lower legs, since without these he would not be a person. Since he has these components, he also has eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and tongue. He also has what we find within a person, such as a heart and lungs and the things that depend on them, all of which, taken together, make us human. We are created with these many components, and if we consider them in their interconnections, they are beyond counting. In the Divine-Human One, though, they are infinite. Nothing is lacking, so he has an infinite completeness.

We can make this comparison of the uncreated Person, who is God, with us who are created, because that God is a person. It is because of him that we earthly beings are said to have been created in his image and in his likeness (Genesis 1:26-27).

8984. 'And he shall go out in his body' means a state after conflict which is solely one of strengthened and implanted truth. This is clear from the meaning of 'going out' - out of servitude - as a state after conflict, dealt with above in 8980; and from the meaning of 'in his body' as with truth devoid of good, also dealt with above, in 8977, 8978. A state of strengthened and implanted truth is meant because 'going out in the seventh year' has that meaning, 8976, at this point because spiritual good, represented by 'the woman', has served to strengthen that truth and also to implant new truth, 8981.