invisible has become visible. “No one has ever seen God,” says the Fourth Evangelist; “the only-begotten one, himself God, who has his being in the Father’s bosom, it is he who has declared him” (John 1:18). Later, the same evangelist reports Christ himself as saying, “He who has seen me has seen the Father” (John 14:9). In another letter Paul affirms that, since the creation of the world, the everlasting power and divinity of the unseen Creator may be “clearly perceived in the things that have been