ALPHA MAAMA (A.M.)

Tokonaki ‘Okatopa 29, 2022

EMANATION OF PERFECTION

TAPA MAI ‘A ‘ENE HAOHAOA

PSALM 36:9

With you is the fountain of life; in your light we see light.

SAAME 36:9

He ko e matavai ‘o e mo‘ui ‘oku ‘i he ‘Afiona: ‘I ho‘o maama te mau sio maama.

 

Soli Deo Gloria – To the Glory of God Alone

Ki he Langilangi ‘o e ‘Otua Tokotaha pe   

As there is an infinite fulness of all possible good in God-a fulness of every perfection, of all excellency and beauty, and of infinite happiness and as this fulness is capable of communication, or emanation outward; so it seems a thing amiable and valuable in itself that this infinite fountain of good should send forth abundant streams.

And as this is in itself excellent, so a disposition to this in the divine Being must be looked upon as an excellent disposition. Such an emanation of good is, in some sense, a multiplication of it. And if the fulness of good that is in the fountain is in itself excellent, then the emanation is excellent.

Thus it is fit, since there is an infinite fountain of light and knowledge, that this light should shine forth in beams of communicated knowledge and understanding; and, as there is an infinite fountain of holiness, moral excellence, and beauty, that so it should flow out in communicated holiness. And that, as there is an infinite fulness of joy and happiness, so these should have an emanation, and become a fountain flowing out in abundant streams, as beams from the sun.

JONATHAN EDWARDS

Ko e lelei ‘a e ‘Otua ‘oku ta’efakangatangata – ‘oku kakato ‘a ‘ene haohaoa, mo e lelei mo e masani kotoa, pea mo e fiefia ‘oku ta’efakangatangata – pea ko e tu’unga kakato ko ‘eni ‘oku malava ke fakatafe ke hā kitu’a; pea kapau ko ia ko e fauniteni ta’efakangatangata ko eni ‘oku taau ke tafe atu hono ngaahi matavai.

Ko e ngaahi ‘ulungaanga lelei ko ‘eni ‘oku tafe mei he ‘Otua ‘oku faka’ofo’ofa mo lelei lahi.  Ko hono fakahoko ‘o e lelei ko ‘eni ‘oku fou ‘ia ‘i he mo’ui ‘oku tupulaki.  Pea kapau ‘oku lelei ‘a e kakato ‘a e fauniteni ko eni ‘iate ia pe, pea ‘oku pehe foki pea mo e lelei ‘a e taimi ‘oku tafe atu ai ki he ‘ātaki.

‘I he’ene pehē, ko e fauniteni ta’efakangatangata ‘o e maama mo e ‘ilo, ke ulo atu ‘a e maama ko ia ke ne faka’inasi ‘i he ‘ilo pea mo e mahino ke tofuhia ‘a mamani ‘i he fauniteni ‘o e mā’oni’oni, mo’ui taau, faka’ofo’ofa, ke tuha pea mo e mo’ui mā’oni’oni ‘a e ‘Otua.  Ko e tafe ko eni mei he fauniteni ‘o e fiefia mo e lato, ke nau mapunopuna ‘o ‘inasi ai ‘a e fa’ahinga ‘o e tangata, ‘o hange ko e huelo ‘o e la’aa.