But neither infinite power nor infinite wisdom could bestow godhood upon men. For that there would have to be infinite love as well.
Tag: Walter M. Miller Jr.
Perhaps in his loneliness he had acquired the silent conviction that he was ‘the last’, the one, the only. And, being the last, he ceased to be Benjamin, becoming Israel. And upon his heart had settled the history of five thousand years, no longer remote, but become as the history of his own lifetime. His “I” was the converse of the imperial “We.