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Quotation from An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith by John of Damascus
“The Deity, therefore, is ineffable and incomprehensible.”
An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith, Book I, Chapter I: That the Deity is incomprehensible, and that we ought not to pry into and meddle with the, trans. S. D. F. Salmond (1899)
Book I, chapter 1, the opening principle that God cannot be fully grasped by any creature.
Citation: "The Deity, therefore, is ineffable and incomprehensible." — John of Damascus, An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith, Book I, Chapter I: That the Deity is incomprehensible, and that we ought not to pry into and meddle with the, trans. S. D. F. Salmond (1899). (id john-of-damascus-exact-exposition-q1)
