we name Him from each of them, although it is clear that He transcends all of them. For, given the multitude of divine energies, how could God subsist entirely in each without any division at all; and how could each provide Him with a name and manifest Him entirely, thanks to indivisible and supernatural simplicity, if He did not transcend all these energies?20 8 There are, however, energies of God which have a beginning and an end, as all the saints will confirm.21 Our opponent … thinks that everything