“To devote oneself to the study of Scripture is to turn the eyes of the soul from things below to things above.
In Scripture, the divine authors speak to the soul. Through reading Scripture, the soul meets the Word and is united to the Word, and through the Word, partakes in communion with the Father in the end.
But the soul is not able to hear and be united to the Word without the Spirit who removes the veil and the obstacles that harden our hearts to perceive the spiritual meaning of Scripture.
Thus, all knowledge of the Father, when the Son reveals Him, is made known to us through the Holy Spirit. The Spirit unveils the Word to us in the written word, so the Word may shine ‘in our hearts to illuminate the knowledge of his glory’ (2 Cor 4:6).
With unveiled face, we behold the glory of the Word and are transformed into His likeness from glory to glory (2 Cor 3:18).
This journey from image to likeness begins in contemplating the Father in the light of the Son through the Spirit in reading Scripture until the soul reaches its terminus of contemplating God immediately in the face of the Son through the Spirit in eternity.”
–Paul C. Uyen, In Your Light We See Light: A Reformed Theology of Divine Illumination, Studies in Historical and Systematic Theology (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2025), 85-86.
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