163. In like manner, too, the Seraphim were
veiling His face with two wings, and with two were veiling His feet,
and with two were flying. For here also is a mystery of spiritual
wisdom. Seasons stand, seasons fly; the past stand, the future
are flying, and like the wings of the Seraphim, so they veil the face
or the feet of God; inasmuch as in God, Who has neither beginning nor
end, the whole course of times and seasons, from this knowledge of its
beginning and its end, is at rest. So, then, times past and
future stand, the present fly. Ask not after the secrets of His
beginning or His end, for there is neither. You have the present,
but you must praise Him, not question.