THEOSISGregory the Great
Who can convey what I express? Job 37:20. It’s as if the unuttered truths I proclaim, praising Him with heartfelt fervor, are beyond anyone's capacity to echo, even after they’ve been heard. Yet, as knowledge and pride often exist within a single mind, both lightness of spirit and the weight of emotion emerge from the speaker’s words. After Elihu boasts in his arrogant self-importance, asserting, Who can tell Him what I say? he quickly returns to his learned insights: But if a man speaks, he will be enveloped Job 37:20.
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Everything that consumes another also draws it inward, obscuring it from the view of others and concealing what was once visible. When a person remains silent about God, he seems to retain a connection to the Original Source of his creation. However, once he begins to articulate thoughts about God, he immediately exposes his own insignificance; for he is engulfed by the vastness of God's grandeur, plunging into depths that remain hidden. To speak of the Unutterable is to be consumed by the limitations of one's ignorance. When the flesh attempts to describe the Spirit, it attempts to depict the Indescribable, the Creator with the creature, the Eternal with the temporal, the Immutable with the changeable, and the Immortal with the mortal.
In his state of darkness, one cannot perceive the inner light, making the man who endeavors to contemplate eternity akin to a blind person trying to describe illumination. If one is to truly speak, he must be immersed in the reality; for to articulate eternity in its true essence, he must set aside his own sense and understanding that arise in moments of silence. Yet, behold! Eternity became genuinely known to humanity when it revealed itself through the assumption of human nature. Although it has not yet been fully unveiled, it is rightfully understood through the very person of man.