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But otherwise how shall we dare to call You substance, or to glorify three divided hypostases in You? And what sort of union at all will anyone conceive, if the Father is in You and You are with Your Father and Your Holy Spirit proceeds from Him and You Yourself, the Lord, are Your Spirit, and the Spirit is called Lord and my God and Your Father both is and is called Spirit? (258) But no one of angels or of men has ever seen You, has not beheld these things, has not known the manner. How could one speak, how could one utter, how could one dare separation or union or confusion or mixture or even blending, to call the one three, and how the three one? Therefore, Master, from what You have said, every faithful one of Yours believes, from what You have taught, he hymns Your power, since all things concerning You are entirely incomprehensible, unknown and ineffable to those created by You. For Your existence is incomprehensible, because You are by nature uncreated, and You have begotten likewise; and how shall a created being understand the manner of Your existence, or of the begetting of Your Son, God and Word, or of the procession of Your Divine Spirit, so that he might know Your union and perceive a separation and learn precisely the form of Your substance? No one has yet seen any of these things of which I have spoken. For it is not possible for another God to come into being by nature, that he might be able to investigate the substance, form and shape of Your nature, and likewise the hypostasis, but You are Yourself in Yourself, You alone are God the Trinity, You alone knowing Yourself, Your Son and the Spirit, and being known by Them alone as consubstantial. But others, just as those sitting inside a house see the rays of the perceptible sun entering, seeing them well and observing them from afar, but they do not see the sun at all - so the light of Your glory, so the splendors, and these things through a riddle with a purified mind, those who seek from the soul to see You are deemed worthy; but You, what You are like, of what sort You happen to be in substance (259) or how You once begot and beget eternally and are not separated from the One begotten of You, but He is wholly in You, wholly filling all things with divinity, while You, the Father, remain wholly in Him, the Son and You have the Divine Spirit proceeding from You, knowing and filling all things, being God in substance and not separated from You, for He also springs forth from You. You are the fount of good things, and every good thing is Your Son, distributing them through the Spirit to all worthily, compassionately, and lovingly to both angels and men.

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Ἄλλως δέ πῶς τολμήσωμεν οὐσίαν σε καλέσαι ἤ ὑποστάσεις ἐπί σοῦ τρεῖς μεριστάς δοξάσαι; Ὁποίαν δέ καί ἕνωσιν ὅλως τίς ἐννοήσει, εἰ ὁ Πατήρ γάρ ἐν σοί καί σύν ἐν τῷ Πατρί σου καί ἐξ αὐτοῦ τό Ἅγιοιν προέρχεταί σου Πνεῦμα καί σύ αὐτός, ὁ Κύριος, τό Πνεῦμά σου ὑπάρχεις, τό δέ Πνεῦμα ὁ Κύριος κέκλησαι καί Θεός μου καί ὁ Πατήρ σου Πνεῦμα δέ καί ἔστι καί καλεῖται; (258) Οὐδείς δέ εἶδε σέ ποτέ ἀγγέλων ἤ ἀνθρώπων, οὐ ταῦτα ἐθεάσατο, οὐ τόν τρόπον ἐπέγνω. Πῶς εἴπῃ, πῶς δέ φθέγξοιτο, πῶς χωρισμόν τολμήσῃ ἤ ἕνωσιν ἤ σύγχυσιν ἤ μίξιν ἤ καί κρᾶσιν, τό ἕν δέ τρία προσειπεῖν, ἕν πῶς δέ τά τρία; ∆ιά τοῦτο οὖν, ∆έσποτα, ἐξ ὧν εἶπας πιστεύει, ἐξ ὧν ἐδίδαξας ὑμνεῖ πᾶς πιστός σου τό κράτος, ἐπεί πάντα τά κατά σέ ἀκατάληπτα πάντῃ, ἄγνωστα καί ἀνέκφορα τοῖς ὑπό σοῦ κτισθεῖσι. Καί γάρ ἀκατανόητος ἐστίν ἡ ὕπαρξίς σου, ὅτι πέφυκας ἄκτιστος, ἐγέννησας δ᾿ ὡσαύτως˙ καί πῶς κτιστός νοήσει σου τῆς ὑπάρξεως τρόπον ἤ τῆς γεννήσεως τοῦ σοῦ Υἱοῦ, Θεοῦ καί Λόγου, εἴτε τῆς ἐκπορεύσεως Πνεύματός σου τοῦ Θείου, ἵνα καί ἕνωσίν σου γνῷ καί χωρισμόν κατίδοι καί ἀκριβῶς οὐσίας σου τό εἶδος καταμάθοι; Οὐδείς οὐδέπω εἶδέ σου τούτων τι, ὧνπερ εἶπον. Οὐ γάρ ἐνδέχεται Θεόν ἄλλον φύσει γενέσθαι, ἵνα φύσεως τῆς σῆς ἐρευνῆσαι ἰσχύσῃ οὐσίαν, εἶδος καί μορφήν, ὑπόστασιν ὡσαύτως, ἀλλ᾿ εἶ αὐτός ἐν σεαυτῷ, μόνος Τριάς Θεός εἶ, μόνος γινώσκων σευτόν, Υἱόν σου καί τό Πνεῦμα καί ὑπ᾿ αὐτῶν ὡς συμφυῶν γινωσκόμενος μόνων. Οἱ δ᾿ ἄλλοι ὥσπερ αἰσθητοῦ ἡλίου τάς ἀκτῖνας καί οὗτοι καλῶς βλέποντες καί τηλαυγῶς ὁρῶντες ἔνδον οἴκου καθήμενοι εἰσιούσας ὁρῶσιν, ἐκεῖνοι δέ τόν ἥλιον ὅλως οὐ καθορῶσιν - οὕτω τῆς δόξης σου τό φῶς, οὕτω τάς λαμπηδόνας, καί ταύτας ἐν αἰνίγματι νοΐ κεκαθαρμένῳ, οἱ ἐκ ψυχῆς ζητοῦντές σε βλέπειν καταξιοῦνται˙ σέ δέ, ὁποῖος, ποταπός τῇ οὐσίᾳ τυγχάνεις (259) ἤ πῶς ἅπαξ ἐγέννησας καί γεννᾷς ἀεννάως καί οὐ χωρίζῃ τοῦ ἐκ σοῦ γεννωμένου, ἀλλ᾿ ἔστιν ὅλος ἐν σοί, ὅλος πληρῶν θεότητι τά πάντα, ὅλος γε μένεις ἐν αὐτῷ τῷ Υἱῷ ὁ Πατήρ δέ καί σοῦ ἐκπορευόμενον ἔχεις τό Θεῖον Πνεῦμα, πάντα γινῶσκον καί πληροῦν, Θεός ὄν κατ᾿ οὐσίαν καί σοῦ μή χωριζόμενον, ἐκ σοῦ γάρ καί πηγάζει. Σύ εἶ πηγή τῶν ἀγαθῶν, πᾶν δ᾿ ἀγαθόν Υἱός σου, νέμων διά τοῦ Πνεύματος αὐτά πᾶσιν ἀξίως, εὐσπλάγχνως, φιλανθρώπως τε ἀγγέλοις καί ἀνθρώποις.