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and they seem to be united, because the boundaries of the mixtures, which distinguish the differences of the colors, escape our sight; so that it is impossible to discover up to what point the fiery-gleaming stands, or the emerald-green with its splendors, or the greenish-yellow with its brightnesses [the brightnesses], and at what point it begins; the Word, I think, teaching us also through creation, not to be perplexed by the arguments concerning doctrines, when, having fallen into what is difficult to contemplate, we become dizzy about assenting to what is said. For as in the case of things that appear to the eyes experience is stronger than reason, so also in the case of transcendent doctrines, let faith be stronger than comprehension through reasoning.

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καί συνηνῶσθαι δοκοῦσι, τῷ λανθάνειν τάς ὄψεις ἡμῶν τούς ὄρους τῶν μίξεων, τούς διακρίνοντας τάς τῶν χροῶν ἑτερότητας· ὡς ἀμήχανον ἐξευρεῖν, μέχρι τίνος ἕστηκε τό πυραυγές ἤ σμαραγδίζον ταῖς αἴγλαις, ἤ χλοάζον ταῖς λαμπηδόσι [τάς λαμπηδόνας], καί ἐπί τίνος ἄρχεται· παιδεύοντος, οἶμαι, τοῦ, λόγου καί διά τῆς κτίσεως ἡμᾶς, μή καινοπαθεῖν τοῖς περί τῶν δογμάτων λόγοις, ὅταν εἰς τό δυσθεώρητον ἐμπεσόντες, πρός τήν συγκατάθεσιν τῶν λεγομένων ἰλιγγιάσωμεν. Ὡς γάρ ἐπί τῶν τοῖς ὀφθαλμοῖς φαινομένων κρείττων λόγου ἡ πεῖρα, οὕτως καί ἐπί τῶν ὑπεραναβεβηκότων δογμάτων κρείττων ἡ πίστις ἔστω τῆς διά τῶν λογισμῶν καταλήψεως.