God: you realize he is knowable, yet you know him as indescribable

Posted: January 26, 2012 by Pam Larson in Devotionals/Commentaries, January
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Justin Taylor posted this at his blog, Between Two Worlds, hosted at the Gospel Coalition:

“The perfection of learning is to know God in such a way that, though you realize he is knowable, yet you know him as indescribable.”

—Hilary of Poitiers, De trinitate, II, 7.

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