It is plain, then, that there is a God. But
what He is in His essence and nature is absolutely incomprehensible and
unknowable. For it is evident that He is incorporeal Various
reading, It is evident that the divine (τὸ Θεῖον)
is incorporeal.. For how could that possess body
which is infinite, and boundless, and formless, and intangible and
invisible, in short, simple and not compound? How could that be
immutable Text ἄτρεπτον.
Most mss. read σεπτόν. So,
too, Greg. Naz., Orat. 34, from which these words are
taken. An old interpretation is ‘venerabile
est.’ But in the opinion of Combefis, Gregory’s text
is corrupt, and ἄτρεπτονshould be
read, which reading is also supported by various authorities, including
three Cod. Reg.: cf. also De Trinit. in
Cyril. which is
circumscribed and subject to passion? And how could that be
passionless which is composed of elements and is resolved again into
them? For combination σύνθεσις. is the
beginning of conflict, and conflict of separation, and separation of
dissolution, and dissolution is altogether foreign to God Greg. Naz.,
Orat. 32, 34..