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For these Cherubim signify this also, since they look at each other. Nor

is this free from mystery, that they look toward each, their faces being

turned toward the propitiatory [Exod., 25, 20], that there may be verified

what the Lord said in John, "Now this is the eternal life: That they may

know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, Whom thou hast sent" [John,

17, 3]. For we should wonder not only at the essential and personal traits

of God in themselves, but also in comparison with the superwonderful union

of God and man in the unity of Christ's person.