98.  Who is the man who has never, by experience and contemplation, traversed the entire series of the titles325    Titles.  These are more fully dealt with Orat. xxx. 17–21. and powers of Christ, both those more lofty ones which originally were His, and those more lowly ones which He later assumed for our sake—viz.:  God, the Son, the Image, the Word, the Wisdom, the Truth, the Light, the Life, the Power, the Vapour, the Emanation, the Effulgence, the Maker, the King, the Head, the Law, the Way, the Door, the Foundation, the Rock, the Pearl, the Peace, the Righteousness, the Sanctification, the Redemption, the Man, the Servant, the Shepherd, the Lamb, the High Priest, the Victim, the Firstborn before creation, the Firstborn from the dead, the Resurrection:  who is the man who hearkens, but pays no heed, to these names so pregnant with reality, and has never yet held communion with, nor been made partaker of, the Word, in any of the real relations signified by each of these names which He bears?

ϞΗʹ. Τίς μήπω διὰ πασῶν ὁδεύσας τῶν τοῦ Χριστοῦ προσηγοριῶν καὶ δυνάμεων, καὶ ἔργῳ καὶ θεωρίᾳ, τῶν τε ὑψηλοτέρων καὶ πρώτων, καὶ τῶν δι' ἡμᾶς ταπεινοτέρων καὶ τελευταίων, τοῦ Θεοῦ, τοῦ Υἱοῦ, τῆς Εἰκόνος, τοῦ Λόγου, τῆς Σοφίας, τῆς Ἀληθείας, τοῦ Φωτὸς, τῆς Ζωῆς, τῆς Δυνάμεως, τῆς Ἀτμίδος, τῆς Ἀποῤῥοίας, τοῦ Ἀπαυγάσματος, τοῦ Ποιητοῦ, τοῦ Βασιλέως, τῆς Κεφαλῆς, τοῦ Νόμου, τῆς Ὁδοῦ, τῆς Θύρας, τοῦ Θεμελίου, τῆς Πέτρας, τοῦ Μαργαρίτου, τῆς Εἰρήνης, τῆς Δικαιοσύνης, τοῦ Ἁγιασμοῦ, τῆς Ἀπολυτρώσεως, τοῦ Ἀνθρώπου, τοῦ Δούλου, τοῦ Ποιμένος, τοῦ Ἀμνοῦ, τοῦ Ἀρχιερέως, τοῦ Θύματος, τοῦ Πρωτοτόκου πρὸ κτίσεως, Πρωτοτόκου ἐκ τῶν νεκρῶν, τῆς Ἀναστάσεως: τίς τούτων τῶν ὀνομάτων τε καὶ πραγμάτων ἐπακούων εἰκῆ, καὶ μήπω κοινωνήσας τῷ Λόγῳ, μηδὲ μεταλαβὼν αὐτοῦ, καθ' ὃ τούτων ἕκαστόν ἐστί τε καὶ κέκληται;