shechinah

Chrysostom it is said: ‘The real shechinah is man!’

The Man Who Was Afraid 2003

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 John Delafield

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. Various

In John Chrysostom it is said: 'The real shechinah is man!'

The Man Who Was Afraid Maksim Gorky 1902

The allusions in the New Testament to the shechinah are not unfrequent.

Smith's Bible Dictionary 1884

There are sealed cells, where, veiled from scrutiny and sacred as Eleusinia, burns the God-given shechinah of the human soul.

Macaria; or, Altars of Sacrifice Augusta Jane 1864

Fourthly, That as of old God dwelt in the tabernacle of Moses, by the shechinah between the cherubim, so now he dwells in the human nature of Christ; that is now the true shechinah, the symbol of God's peculiar presence.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721

It was, like the temple, the habitation of God's glory; there the eternal Word dwelt, the true shechinah.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721

Abraham yet stood, and to whom he drew near (v. 23), as most think, or whether the third left them before they came to Sodom, and the Lord before whom Abraham stood was the shechinah, or that appearance of the divine glory which Abraham had formerly seen and conversed with, is uncertain.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy) 1721

Some think this was a created angel, the angel of his presence (Isa.lxiii. 9), one of those that always behold the face of our Father and attend on the shechinah, or the divine Majesty, which probably Jacob had also in view.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy) 1721