So that’s the Catholic interpretation. Would be interesting to find out the original Hebrew & its precise meaning.
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As I recall, God appears in the final passages of The Divine Comedy as a spinning wheel of fire. So it seems he was trying to present a non-anthropomorphic vision of God, which is intriguing in the context of the times.
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I thought antropomorphic image of God only came after Dante with humanism, protestantism, renaissance?
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A somewhat anthropomorphic image is suggested by the words ‘Father’ & ‘Lord’ (consider that Heraclitus did not refer to God as ‘he’ or ‘father’, but rather as ‘it’ or ‘the Divine’). The wheel of fire recalls Heraclitus in fact-he said that the world is ‘an ever-living fire.’
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Ah yes, but remember that Scripture speaks to each man on his own level, and must therefore take on a certain manner of words, while Heraclitus certainly did not intend his writing to be for the common man. Still, you have a point
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