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    Previously it was only prophets who communicated with God but now it’s every believer – Epifaniy’s address on Trinity feast

    In Old Testament times, the knowledge of God as the Holy Trinity was mysterious and revealed only to the prophets. For mankind in general and even in part the people of Israel themselves, to whom the law and revelation were given, worshiped polytheism, worshiping spirits of evil, demons, in the name of the gods.

    The head of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, Metropolitan Epifaniy, spoke about this during the All-Night Vigil on the eve of the Holy Trinity Day.

    “Therefore, for the weak and unconfirmed in faith, the revelation of God, the One in essence and the Trinity in Persons, would be impossible to perceive. As children first learn the simple, and as they grow, they acquire more and more complex knowledge – so humanity had first to be established in the revelation of the One God, and when the time came, the truth about the Trinity of Divine Persons was revealed to the faithful,” said Metropolitan of Kyiv and all Ukraine.

    If in the Old Testament only chosen prophets like Moses could communicate with God, as the book of Exodus says, “as one speaks to a friend” (Ex. 33:11), now such an opportunity through Christ in the Holy Spirit has opened up to every believer,” the head of the OCU emphasized.

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