Before I sign off for a few hours’ sleep, here is something from Johannes de Silentio’s Fear and Trembling, A Dialectical Lyric, Problem One, as translated by one Walter Lowrie:
‘One is deeply moved, one longs to be back in those beautiful times, a sweet yearning conducts one to the desired goal, to see Christ wandering the promised land. One forgets the dread, the distress, the paradox. Was it so easy a matter not to be mistaken? Was it not dreadful that this man who walks among the others - was it not dreadful that He was God? Was it not dreadful to sit at table with Him? Was it so easy a matter to become an Apostle?’
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