Something similar applies to the other structure for the seeing-hearing-doing sequence expresses the increasing animation of divine revelation as it confronts me: seeing corresponds to an “image”, an object (ob-jectum) at some distance from the eye, whereas in “hearing” a sound comes from the image and reaches me; I do not turn to it and survey it: it strikes me and has me in its power, since I cannot ward it off. Finally, this sound is a deed, an action of God’s part, seizing and transforming me by its challenge and grace. So these structures are far less external than it might seem. All the
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