bear to look at God (1 Tim 6:16), but Jesus has seen God (John 6:46). On the other hand, aoratos in 1 Tim 1:17 assigns “invisible” to God as an attribute, though one could praise God for being “unseen” or “unseeable” (in the sense that humans are unable to see God), or invisible. Even the repetition of the adjective in v. 16 does little to clarify the meaning of aoratos in v. 15 because the beings Christ creates could be either unseen or invisible. However we render aoratos, its purpose is to emphasize