Origen,
Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. IV, Origen…
(1885)
“ And, generally, with regard to such a style of speaking about God, we find in the book of Deuteronomy the following: “The Lord thy God bare with your manners, as a man would bear with the manners of his son.” [3] It is, as it were, assuming the manners of a man in order to secure the advantage of men that the Scripture makes use of such expressions ”
