One way we can understand more about millions is to use it in place of other words, as in this quote from the end of Marilynne Robinson’s novel, Gilead:
“It has seemed to me as though the Lord breathes on this poor gray ember of creation and turns it to radiance for a moment or a year or the span of a life. And then it sinks back into itself again, and to look at it no one would know it had anything to do with fire or light. That is what I said in the Pentecost sermon. I have reflected on that sermon, and there is some truth in it. But the Lord is more constant and far more extravagant than it seems to imply. Wherever you turn your eyes the world can shine like transfiguration. You don’t have to bring a thing to it except a little willingness to see. Only, who could have the courage to see it?”
Only who would have the MILLIONS to see it?
