Tanrı İdrak Edilemezdir: Ortodoks İmanın Kesin Açıklaması

"No one has seen God at any time; the Only-begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him." The Deity, therefore, is ineffable and incomprehensible. For "no one knows the Father, except the Son, nor the Son, except the Father." And the Holy Spirit, too, knows the things of God just as the spirit of a man knows the things that are in him. Moreover, after the first and blessed Nature, no one—not of men only, but even of supramundane powers, and the Cherubim and Seraphim themselves—has ever known God, except he to whom He revealed Himself. God, however, did not leave us in absolute ignorance. For the knowledge of God's existence has been implanted by Him in all by nature. This creation, too, and its maintenance and government, proclaim the majesty of the Divine Nature. Moreover, by the Law and the Prophets in former times, and afterwards by His Only-begotten Son, our Lord and God and Saviour Jesus Christ, He disclosed to us the knowledge of Himself to the extent that was possible for us. All things, therefore, that have been delivered to us by the Law, the Prophets, the Apostles, and the Evangelists, we receive, know, and honor, seeking nothing beyond these. For God, being good, is the cause of all good, subject neither to envy nor to any passion. For envy is far removed from the Divine Nature, which is both passionless and only good. As He knows all things and provides for what is profitable for each, He revealed that which it was to our profit to know; but what we were unable to bear, He kept secret. With these things let us be satisfied, and let us abide by them, not moving the everlasting boundaries nor overpassing the divine tradition.