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the indivisible is divided of the word; for the one shut inside a house, but having his mind wandering outside, was not left mindless in the house, but is altogether with it outside as well. What then will you name this separation? Will you say it is a reality or will you say a concept? If a concept, how is he wholly outside, but if some reality, how is he inside the house? And yet what is this example in comparison to the Word who is beyond mind and thought? For the Word, sent forth from the Father, came down and dwelt wholly in the womb of the Virgin and was wholly in the Father and wholly in the womb and wholly in the universe, being uncontainable, not contracted, not diminished, he entered in wholly and, remaining unchangeable, he took the form of a servant and being born became a man in all things, wholly passing through the womb and coming into being in the world, wholly taken up again, from where he was not separated. Would you then dare to say that these things happened wholly by concept or reality, these things which are ineffable to all angels, archangels, and every created nature? (163) For it is truly understood, but is not expressed at all, nor is it comprehended perfectly by the mind in any way. How then is he God and man, man God again and Son of the Father, wholly his inseparably, and was born of the Virgin and came forth into the world and remained uncontainable, as has been said, by all things? By concept or reality? Say. At this you will surely be silent; for even if you should wish to speak, your mind will not give an account and your much-talking tongue will remain idle. But if you should wish to call the divine nature a reality, you must also say of what kind, for I do not know. Glory to you, Father and Son and the Holy Spirit, uncircumscribable divinity, indivisible in nature, we all worship you in the Holy Spirit, we who have your Spirit as having received it from you and seeing your glory we do not pry, but in it we see you, the unbegotten Father and the begotten Word proceeding from you, therefore we worship the uncut, unconfused Trinity,

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τό ἀμέριστον μερίζεται τοῦ λόγου˙ ὁ γάρ ἐν οἴκῳ ἔνδοθεν κεκλεισμένος, ἔξω δέ τόν νοῦν περιπολοῦντα ἔχων οὐ κατελείφθη ἄνους ἐν τῇ οἰκίᾳ, ἀλλά μετ᾿ αὐτοῦ καί ἔξω πάντως ἔστι. Τόν οὖν χωρισμόν τοῦτον τί ὀνομάσεις; Πρᾶγμα δή λέξεις ἤ ἐπίνοιαν εἴπῃς; Εἰ ἐπίνοιαν, πῶς ὅλος ἔστιν ἔξω, εἰ δέ πρᾶγμα τι, πῶς ἔνδον τῆς οἰκίας; Καίτοι τί ἐστί τό παράδειγμα τοῦτο πρός τόν ὑπέρ νοῦν καί διάνοιαν Λόγον; Ἐκ γάρ τοῦ Πατρός ἀποσταλείς ὁ Λόγος κατῆλθε καί ἐν γαστρί ἐνῴκησεν ὅλος τῇ τῆς Παρθένου καί ὅλος ἦν ἐν τῷ Πατρί καί ὅλος ἐν κοιλίᾳ καί ὅλος ἐν τῷ σύμπαντι ἀχώρητος ὑπάρχων, μή συσταλείς, μή σμικρυνθείς πάντως εἰσῆλθεν ὅλως καί μείνας ἀναλλοίωτος μορφήν ἔλαβε δούλου καί γεννηθείς ἐγένετο ἄνθρωπος κατά πάντα, ὅλος τήν μήτραν διελθών καί γεγονώς ἐν κόσμῳ, ὅλος πάλιν ἀναληφθείς, ὅθεν οὐκ ἐχωρίσθη. Ταῦτα οὖν κατ᾿ ἐπίνοιαν ἤ πρᾶγμα γεγονέναι ὅλως εἰπεῖν τολμήσειας, τά ἀπόρρητα πᾶσιν ἀγγέλοις, ἀρχαγγέλοις τε καί πάςῃ κτιστῇ φύσει; (163) Νοεῖται καί γάρ ἀληθῶς, οὐ φράζεται δέ ὅλως, οὐδέ καταλαμβάνεται νοΐ πάντως τελείως. Πῶς οὖν Θεός καί ἄνθρωπος, ἄνθρωπος Θεός πάλιν καί τοῦ Πατρός ἐστιν Υἱός, ὅλος αὐτοῦ ἀχωρίστως, καί τῆς Παρθένου γέγονε καί προῆλθεν ἐν κόσμῳ καί ἔμεινεν ἀχώρητος, ὡς εἴρηται, τοῖς πᾶσιν; Ἐπινοίᾳ ἤ πράγματι; εἰπέ. Πάντως ἄρτι σιγήσεις˙ κἄν γάρ εἰπεῖν θελήσειας, ὁ νοῦς σου λόγον οὐ δώσει καί μείνῃ ἡ πολύλαλος ἀργήσασά σου γλῶσσα. Εἰ δέ θελήσειας εἰπεῖν πρᾶγμα τήν θείαν φύσιν, πάντως εἴπῃς καί ποταπόν, ἐγώ γάρ οὐ γινώσκω. ∆όξα σοι, Πάτερ καί Υἱέ καί τό Ἅγιον Πνεῦμα, θεότης ἀπερίγραπτε, ἀμέριστε τῇ φύσει, σέ προσκυνοῦμεν ἅπαντες ἐν Πνεύματι Ἁγίῳ, οἱ τό Πνεῦμά σου ἔχοντες ὡς παρά σοῦ λαβόντες καί ὁρῶντες τήν δόξαν σου οὐ πολυπραγμονοῦμεν, ἀλλ᾿ ἐν αὐτῷ σε βλέπομεν ἀγέννητον Πατέρα καί γεννητόν τόν ἀπό σοῦ προερχόμενον Λόγον, ἄτμητον οὖν, ἀσύγχυτον προσκυνοῦμεν Τριάδα,