11. Chap. III.
Moreover, if invisibility is a property of the divine nature, as incorruptibility is, that nature shall assuredly not undergo such a change in the future world as to cease to be invisible and become visible; because it shall never be possible for it to cease to be incorruptible and become corruptible, for it is in both attributes alike immutable. The apostle assuredly declared the excellence of the divine nature when he placed these two together, saying, "Now, unto the King of ages, invisible, incorruptible, the only God, be honour and glory for ever and ever." 1 Wherefore I dare not make such a distinction as to say incorruptible, indeed, for ever and ever, but invisible--not for ever and ever, but only in this world. At the same time, since the testimonies which we are next to quote cannot be false,--"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God," 2 and, "We know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is," 3 --we cannot deny that the sons of God shall see God; but they shall see Him as invisible things are seen, in the manner in which He who appeared in the flesh, visible to men, promised that He would manifest Himself to men, when, speaking in the presence of the disciples and seen by their eyes, He said: "I will love him, and will manifest myself to him." In what other manner are invisible things seen than by the eyes of the mind, concerning which, as the instruments of our vision of God, I have shortly before quoted the opinion of Jerome?
