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Secondly, in the expression, "Mountain of God, Mountain full of curds," Mountain "fruitful," let no one dare from this to compare the Lord Jesus Christ with the rest of the Saints, who are themselves also called mountains of God....For there were not wanting men to call Him, some John Baptist, some Elias, some Jeremias, or one of the Prophets; ¹ He turneth to them and saith, "Why do ye imagine ² mountains full of curds, a mountain," he saith, "wherein it hath pleased God to dwell therein"? (ver. 16). "Why do ye imagine?" ³ For as they are a light, because to themselves also hath been said, "Ye are the Light of the world," ⁴ but something different hath been called "the true Light which enlighteneth every man," ⁵ so they are mountains; but far different is the Mountain "prepared on the top of the mountains." ⁶ These mountains therefore in bearing that Mountain are glorious: one of which mountains saith, "but from me far be it to glory, save in the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom to me the world hath been crucified, and I to the world:" ⁷ so that "he hath glorieth, not in himself, but in the Lord may glory." ⁸ "Why" then "do ye imagine mountains full of curds," that "Mountain wherein it hath pleased God to dwell therein"? Not because in other men He dwelleth not, but because in them through Him. "For in Him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead," ⁹ not in a shadow, as in the temple made by king Solomon, ¹⁰ but "bodily," that is, solidly and truly...."For there is One God, and One Mediator of God and men, the Man Christ Jesus," ¹¹ Mountain of mountains, as Saint of saints. Whence He saith, "I in them and Thou in Me." ¹² "Why then do ye imagine mountains full of curds, the mountain wherein it hath pleased God to dwell in Him?" For those mountains full of curds that Mountain the Lord shall inhabit even unto the end, that something they may be to whom He saith, "for without Me nothing ye are able to do." ¹³