Metropolitan Anthony continues to expand on the idea of being humbled by the presence of God. He refers to Saint Paul’s phrase, “My power is manifest in weakness” (2 Cor. 12:9), but points out that the weakness he is referring to is that which makes us essentially an instrument in the hand of God.

In Homily VII, St. Basil arrives at verse 9, in which God orders, “Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that has life” (Gen. 1:9). Perhaps this is one of The Hexameron’s most metaphoric homilies, in which St.

Metropolitan Anthony discusses the fact that many of us complain that God is not there when we pray and that we do not feel his presence, but he makes several points concerning this issue of the so-called “absence” of God.