6.  What then, some man will say, is it not written, The little ones’ Angels do always behold the face of My Father which is in heaven Matt. xviii. 10.?  Yes, but the Angels see God not as He is, but as far as they themselves are capable.  For it is Jesus Himself who saith, Not that any man hath seen the Father, save He which is of God, He hath seen the Father John vi. 46..  The Angels therefore behold as much as they can bear, and Archangels as much as they are able; and Thrones and Dominions more than the former, but yet less than His worthiness:  for with the Son the Holy Ghost alone can rightly behold Him:  for He searcheth all things, and knoweth even the deep things of God 1 Cor. ii. 10.:  as indeed the Only-begotten Son also, with the Holy Ghost, knoweth the Father fully:  For neither, saith He, knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal Him Matt. xi. 27..  For He fully beholdeth, and, according as each can bear, revealeth God through the Spirit:  since the Only-begotten Son together with the Holy Ghost is a partaker of the Father’s Godhead.  He, who The Benedictine and earlier printed texts read ὁ γεννηθεὶς [ἀπαθῶς πρὸ τῶν χρόνων αἰωνίων]:  but the words in brackets are not found in the best mss.  The false grammar betrays a spurious insertion, which also interrupts the sense.  On the meaning of the phrase ὁ γεννηθεὶς ἀπαθῶς, see note on vii. 5:  οὐ πάθει πατὴρ γενόμενος. was begotten knoweth Him who begat; and He Who begat knoweth Him who is begotten.  Since Angels then are ignorant (for to each according to his own capacity doth the Only-begotten reveal Him through the Holy Ghost, as we have said), let no man be ashamed to confess his ignorance.  I am speaking now, as all do on occasion:  but how we speak, we cannot tell:  how then can I declare Him who hath given us speech?  I who have a soul, and cannot tell its distinctive properties, how shall I be able to describe its Giver?