Gregory Thaumaturgus

“ No one, therefore, can know God unless he apprehends the Son; for the Son is the wisdom by whose instrumentality all things have been created; and these created objects declare this wisdom, and God is recognised in the wisdom. But the wisdom of God is not anything similar to the wisdom which man possesses, but it is the perfect wisdom which proceeds from the perfect God, and abides for ever, not like the thought of man, which passes from him in the word that is spoken and (straightway) ceases to be. ”

“ And he who calls upon God rightly, calls on Him through the Son; and he who approaches Him in a true fellowship, comes to Him through Christ. Moreover, the Son Himself cannot be approached apart from the Spirit. For the Spirit is both the life and the holy formation of all things; [3] and God sending forth this Spirit through the Son makes the creature [4] like Himself.
Footnotes ↑ προκοπάς.↑ δόξαν τὴν ἐπιγινομένην.↑ μόρφωσις τῶν ὅλων.↑ τὴν κτίσιν. ”