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Translated from the Greek original by Frederick Crombie.
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Page 97
And again, with regard to Moses it is said: "Moses alone shall come near the Lord, but the rest shall not come nigh." [4373] And again, that the prophet may show the depth of the doctrines which relate to God, and which is unattainable by those who do not possess the "Spirit which searcheth all things, even the deep things of God," he added: "The abyss like a garment is His covering." [4374] Nay, our Lord and Saviour, the Logos of God, manifesting that the greatness of the knowledge of the Father is appropriately comprehended and known pre-eminently by Him alone, and in the second place by those whose minds are enlightened by the Logos Himself and God, declares: "No man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father but the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal Him." [4375] For no one can worthily know the "uncreated" [4376] and first-born of all created nature like the Father who begat Him, nor any one the Father like the living Logos, and His Wisdom and Truth. [4377] By sharing in Him who takes away from the Father what is called "darkness," which He "made His secret place," and "the abyss," which is called His "covering," and in this way unveiling the Father, every one knows the Father who [4378] is capable of knowing Him.
[4373] Cf. Ex. xxiv. 2.
[4374] Cf. Ps. civ. 6.
[4375] Cf. Matt. xi. 27.
[4376] ageneton. Locus diligenter notandus, ubi Filius e creaturarum numero diserte eximitur, dum agenetos dicitur. At non dissimulandum in unico Cod. Anglicano secundo legi: ton genneton: cf. Origenianorum, lib. ii. quaestio 2, num. 23.--Ruaeus.
[4377] [Bishop Bull, in the Defensio Fidei Nicenae, book ii. cap. ix. 9, says, "In these words, which are clearer than any light, Origen proves the absolutely divine and uncreated nature of the Son." S.]
[4378] ho ti pot' an chore gignoskein. Boherellus proposes hostis pot' an chore, etc.
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