to lay on feeble hearts a weight of doubt. For, with beginners, it’s not the time [20] for more consummate language. Who shows a fire’s whole glow to still-dim eyes, or gorges them with light insatiable? It’s better if, bit by bit, you bring on the fiery glowings, (410) lest you even hurt some way the springs of a sweeter light. For, as of old the scriptures displayed the whole deity [25] of the royal Father, and Christ’s great fame began to dawn, disclosed to men of little understanding, so also,