“If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?”
I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe; how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things? — the pedagogical principle: if spiritual truth's earthly expressions provoke disbelief, celestial mysteries will certainly exceed capacity. The dichotomy (earthly/heavenly, ta epigeia/ta epourania) establishes hierarchical orders of reality. Jesus' teaching progresses from accessible to transcendent; resistance at the first level prevents ascent to the second.
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