shechinah

• In John Chrysostom it is said: 'The real shechinah is man!' —  The Man Who Was Afraid
• We lose him altogether in the "central cloud region," where he helps nature pretty considerably as she "melts even the unoccupied azure into palpitating shades," and hopelessly turns the corner of common observation, and escapes among the "fifty aisles penetrating through angelic chapels to the shechinah of the blue." —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.
• He only claimed to have heard him speaking to him out of the midst of a great and most bright flame of fire; and he, therefore, taught his followers that fire was the truest _shechinah_ of the divine presence. —  Mysticism and its Results Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy
• (9) [shechinah] literally "dwelling," is a name applied to God when He is spoken of as dwelling among men. —  Pirke Avot Sayings of the Jewish Fathers
• 10. shechinah —  A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes

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