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You, who are outside of all things as God of all things, are invisible, unapproachable, incomprehensible and intangible, (88) you yourself also became a mortal, you entered into the world and were seen by all as approachable through the assumption of the flesh. And you were known to the faithful by the glory of your divinity and you became comprehensible to them, you who are utterly incomprehensible, and you yourself were entirely visible, you who are invisible to all; and they saw your glory, that of the divine divinity, only the faithful also see it, but all the unbelievers, having seen you, remained blind, O light of the world. The faithful, therefore, both then and now always see you and have you, the creator of all things, with them, present and dwelling with them in the darkness of this life, as an unsetting sun, as an unquenchable lamp, not at all overcome by the darkness, but always illuminating those who see you. And since you, as it has been said, are outside all things and, those whom you illumine, you place outside of the things that are seen and just as you, being there above with your Father without separation, are wholly yourself with us and again, being in the world, you are uncontainable by the world—for being yourself in everything, you are beyond everything—thus you lead us your servants out from the midst of sensible things, existing within the visible, and you bring us wholly upward with you, shining with your light, and you make mortals into immortals; and remaining what we are, by your grace we become sons like you, gods seeing God. Who then will not run to you, the only lover of mankind, who will not follow you, who will not say out of longing: Behold, having cast everything aside we will follow you, the sympathetic, the gentle, the compassionate Master, who is always waiting for our return, (89) who does not desire the death of those who have offended you, who now accomplishes awesome things in us, which once, hearing that they happened long ago in the house of David, we marvelled at. And what might these things be? We are the house of David, as his kinsmen, for you yourself, the creator of all things, have become his son, and we are your sons by grace; you are our kinsman in the flesh, we are yours in divinity. For having taken flesh, you have given us your Divine Spirit,

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ὁ ἔξω πάντων ὠς Θεός τῶν πάντων σύ ὑπάρχων ἀόρατος, ἀπρόσιτος, ἄληπτος ἀναφής τε, (88) αὐτός ἐγένου καί βροτός, εἰσῆλθες ἐν τῷ κόσμῳ καί πᾶσιν ὤφθης προσιτός τῇ τῆς σαρκός προσλήψει. Ἐγνώσθης δέ καί τοῖς πιστοῖς θεότητος τῇ δόξῃ καί γέγονας αὐτοῖς ληπτός, ὁ ἄληπτος εἰς ἅπαν, καί ὁρατός ὅλος αὐτός, ὁ ἀόρατος πᾶσιν˙ καί εἴδοσαν τήν δόξαν σου, θεότητος τῆς θείας, μόνοι πιστοί καί βλέπουσιν, οἱ ἄπιστοι δέ πάντες ἰδόντες σε διέμειναν τυφλοί, τό φῶς τοῦ κόσμου. Οἱ οὖν πιστοί καί τότε σέ καί νῦν ἀεί ὁρῶσι καί ἔχουσι μεθ᾿ ἑαυτῶν τόν κτίστην σε τῶν ὅλων συνόντα συνοικοῦντά τε ἐν σκότει τῷ τοῦ βίου, ὡς ἥλιόν σε ἄδυτον, ὡς ἄσβεστον λαμπάδα, μή καταλαμβανόμενος ὅλως ὑπό τοῦ σκότους, ἀλλά καταφωτίζοντα ἀεί τούς σέ ὁρῶντας. Ἐπεί δέ σύ, ὡς εἴρηται, ἔξω πάντων ὑπάρχεις καί, οὕς φωτίζεις, ἔξωθεν ποιεῖς τῶν ὁρωμένων καί ὥσπερ σύ αὐτόθι ὤν ἄνω σύν τῷ Πατρί σου ἀδιαστάτως μεθ᾿ ἡμῶν ὅλος αὐτός τυγχάνεις καί ἐν τῷ κόσμῳ πάλιν ὤν ἀχώρητος εἶ κόσμῳ ἐν τῷ παντί γάρ ὤν αὐτός ὑπέρ τό πᾶν τυγχάνεις, οὕτως ἡμᾶς τούς δούλους σου τῶν αἰσθητῶν ἐν μέσῳ, τῶν ὁρωμένων τε ἐντός ὑπάρχοντας ἐξάγεις καί ἄνω ὅλως μετά σοῦ λαμπομένους φωτί σου συναναφέρεις καί ποιεῖς ἐκ θνητῶν ἀθανάτους˙ καί μένοντες, ὅπερ ἐσμέν, υἱοί τῇ χάριτί σου ὅμοιοί σοι γινόμεθα, θεοί Θεόν ὁρῶντες. Τίς οὖν οὐ προσδραμεῖταί σοι, τῷ μόνῳ φιλανθρώπῳ, τίς οὐκ ἀκολουθήσει σοι, τίς οὐκ ἐκ πόθου φράσει˙ Ἰδού, τά πάντα ῥίψαντες ἀκολουθήσομέν σοι, τῷ συμπαθεῖ, τῷ προσινεῖ, τῷ εὐσπλάγχνῳ ∆εσπότη, τῷ τήν ἡμῶν ἐπιστροφήν ἀεί ἐκδεχομένῳ, (89) τῷ θανάτῳ μή θέλοντι τῶν σοί προσκεκρουκότων, τῷ ἐν ἡμῖν τά φοβερά νῦν τελεσιουργοῦντι, ἅπερ ποτέ ἀκούοντες ἐν οἴκῳ ∆αυίδ πάλαι γενόμενα θαυμάζομεν. Τά δ᾿ ἄν καί εἴεν ταῦτα˙ οἶκος ∆αυίδ ἡμεῖς ἐσμέν ὡς συγγενεῖς ἐκείνου, καί γάρ αὐτός σύ γέγονας, ὁ τῶν ἁπάντων κτίστης, υἱός ἐκείνου, καί ἡμεῖς υἱοί σου κατά χάριν˙ σύ συγγενής ἡμῶν σαρκί, ἡμεῖς θεότητί σου. Λαβών γάρ σάρκα δέδωκας ἡμῖν Πνεῦμα σου Θεῖον,