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).

8986. 'I love my master, my woman, and my children' means the delight in remembering forms of spiritual good. This is clear from the meaning of 'loving' here as the delight in remembering, dealt with below; from the meaning of 'master' as spiritual good from which [other forms of it spring], dealt with above in 8981; from the meaning of 'woman' as good attached by the spiritual, also dealt with above in 8981; and from the meaning of 'children' as forms of good and truths which are derived from that good, dealt with in 8982. Consequently 'master, wife, and children' in brief means spiritual forms of good. The reason why the delight in remembering those forms of good is meant by 'loving' is that those who were represented by 'Hebrew slaves' are people within the Church who are imbued with the truths of religious teachings and not with good in keeping with those truths, 8974, 8976. Such people cannot be filled with any affection for truth for the sake of good, only for the sake of delight. Therefore 'loving' here, ¹ being used in reference to those people, means the delight in remembering.

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