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you entirely filled. For he is seen by the worthy; but the complete one is not seen, but is seen invisibly, as only a ray of the sun, and he becomes comprehensible to them, being incomprehensible in essence. The ray is indeed seen, but the sun rather blinds, and his ray is comprehensible to you as we said, incomprehensibly. Therefore, according to this I say: having what I have, who will give it to me? This whole thing, clearly, who will show me what I see? For I see the ray, but I do not see the sun. But does not the ray both seem to you and is seen to be the sun? Seeing this, I long to see the whole begetter; Seeing thus, I say again: who will show me him whom I see? (179) Having again all the rays within the house, I say again: where will I find the source of the rays? But the ray is clearly another source again in me; O strange wonder of wonders! Above the sun shines forth, but the ray of the sun again appears to me as another sun on earth and illuminates; truly the second exists like the first. Having this one I say I have him, but seeing the other from afar I likewise cry out: Who will give me him whom I have? For they are not cut off from one another, nor are they separated at all,

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ὅλον σε πεπληρωμένον. Καθορᾶται γάρ ἀξίοις˙ οὐχ ὁρᾶται δέ ὁ πλήρης, ἀλλ᾿ ὁρᾶται ἀοράτως, ὡς ἀκτίς ἡλίου μόνη, καί ληπτός αὐτοῖς τυγχάνει, ἄληπτος ὤν κατ᾿ οὐσίαν. Ἡ ἀκτίς μέν καθορᾶται, ἥλιος τυφλοῖ δέ μᾶλλον, καί ἀκτίς αὐτοῦ ληπτή σοι ὥσπερ εἴπομεν, ἀλήπτως. Κατά τοῦτο τοίνυν λέγω˙ ὅπερ ἔχων, τίς μοι δώσει; Ὅλον τοῦτο δηλονότι τίς, ὅ βλέπω, ὑποδείξει; Τήν ἀκτῖνα καί γάρ βλέπω, τόν δέ ἥλιον οὐ βλέπω. Ἡ δ᾿ ἀκτίς οὐχ ἥλιός σοι καί δοκεῖ καί καθορᾶται; Ταύτην βλέπων ὅλον βλέψαι τόν γεννήτορα ποθῶ γε˙ Οὕτως βλέπων λέγω πάλιν˙ τίς μοι δείξει, ὅνπερ βλέπω; (179) Τάς ἀκτῖνας ἔχων αὖθις ὅλας ἔνδον τῆς οἰκίας, λέγω πάλιν˙ ποῦ εὑρήσω τήν πηγήν τήν τῶν ἀκτίνων; Ἡ δ᾿ ἀκτίς πηγή δ᾿ αὖ ἄλλη ἐν ἐμοί σαφῶς ὑπάρχει˙ ὤ θαῦμα θαυμάτων ξένον! Ἄνω ἥλιος ἐκλάμπει , ἡ δ᾿ ἀκτίς ἡλίου αὖθις ἄλλος ἥλιος ἐν γῆς μοι φαίνεται καί καταυγάζει˙ ὅμοιος ὄντως τοῦ πρώτου καί ὁ δεύτερος ὑπάρχει. Τοῦτον ἔχων λέγω ἔχειν, τόν δέ ἄλλον μου μακρόθεν καθορῶν ὡσαύτως κράζω˙ Τίς μοι δώσει, ὅνπερ ἔχω; Οὐ γάρ τέτμηνται ἀλλήλων, οὐ χωρίζονται δέ ὅλως,