07 October 2009

"He who can be seen"

...Christ is always presented as being seen, looked upon and beheld. And this is why God is called Theos, which come from the word theasthai, and literally means: "He who can be seen". This is why God is light: so he can be seen.

- From The Way of the Spirit: Reflections on Life in God by Archimandrite Aimilianos of Simonopetra, tr. with an Introduction by m. Maximos Simonopetrites (Athens: Indiktos, June 2009), p. 181.

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