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| The Nature and Shape of God.
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Chapter
X.—The Nature and Shape of God.
“This is the mystery of the hebdomad. For He
Himself is the rest of the whole who grants Himself as a rest to those who imitate
His greatness within their little measure. For He is alone,
sometimes comprehensible, sometimes incomprehensible, sometimes
limitable,1341
| 1341 The words in
italics are inserted by conjecture. “Sometimes
incomprehensible, sometimes illimitable,” occur only in
onems. | sometimes
illimitable, having extensions which proceed from Him into
infinity. For thus He is comprehensible and incomprehensible,
near and far, being here and there, as being the only existent one, and
as giving a share of that mind which is infinite on every hand, in
consequence of which souls breathe and possess life;1342
| 1342 We have adopted
Wieseler’s suggestions. | and if they be separated from the body
and be found with a longing for Him, they are borne along into His
bosom, as in the winter time the mists of the mountains, attracted by
the rays of the sun, are borne along immortal1343
| 1343 This word is
justly suspected. The passage is in other respects corrupt. | to it. What affection ought
therefore to arise within us if we gaze with our mind on His beautiful
shape! But otherwise it is absurd to speak of
beauty. For beauty cannot exist apart from shape; nor can one
be attracted to the love of God, nor even deem that he can see Him, if
God has no form.
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