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I bid. — Imago coram oculis meis. 64. Quidquid de patre percipimus, per filium vide- mus. — Imago quippe Patris, Filius est, sicut de condito homine Moyses insinuat, dicens: Creavit Deus hominem, ad imaginem Dei fecit illum ( Genes. i, 27). Et sicut per expressionem Sapientiae de eodem Filio quidam sapiens dicit: Candor est enim lucis aeternae ( Sap. vii, 26). 168 Et sicut Paulus ait: Qui cum sit splendor gloriae, ac figura substantiae ejus ( Heb. i, 3). Cum ergo aeternitas ejus cernitur, prout infirmitatis nostrae possibilitas admittit, imago ejus mentis nostrae oculis antefertur; quia cum vere in Patrem intendimus, hune quantum accipimus, per suam imaginem, id est, per Filium videmus;
同節：「有一形像在我眼前。」六十四節：凡我們所領悟關於父的，都是藉著子看見。——因為父的形像就是子，正如摩西論到人被造時所暗示的，說：「神創造了人，是照著神的形像造他」（創世記一27）。又如一位智者論到同一位子，藉表達智慧而說：「因為祂是永恆之光的光輝」（智慧書七26）。又如保羅所說：「祂是榮耀所發的光輝，是神本體的真像」（希伯來書一3）。所以，當祂的永恆按我們軟弱所能容納的程度被察覺時，祂的形像就擺在我們心思的眼前；因為當我們真實地注視父時，就按我們所領受的，藉祂的形像，即藉子，看見祂；
Ibid. — 'An image before my eyes.' 64. Whatever we perceive of the Father, we see through the Son. — For the Image of the Father is the Son, as Moses intimates concerning man when created, saying: 'God created man; after the image of God He made him' (Gen. i, 27). And as a certain wise man says of the same Son, by way of expressing Wisdom: 'For He is the brightness of the eternal light' (Wisd. vii, 26). And as Paul says: 'Who, being the splendor of glory and the figure of His substance' (Heb. i, 3). When, therefore, His eternity is discerned, so far as the capacity of our infirmity admits, His image is set before the eyes of our mind; because when we truly gaze upon the Father, we see Him, in the measure we receive, through His Image, that is, through the Son;
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et per eam speciem, quae de ipso sine initio nata est, eum aliquo modo cernere, qui nec coepit, nec desinit conamur. Unde et haec eadem Veritas in Evangelio dicit: Nemo venit ad Patrem, nisi per me ( Joan. xiv 6). Bene autem subditur:
並藉著那從祂無始而生的肖像，我們努力以某種方式察覺那無始無終的一位。因此，這同一位真理在福音書中也說：「若不藉著我，沒有人能到父那裡去」（約翰十四6）。並恰當地補充說：
and through that likeness which was born of Him without beginning, we endeavor in some manner to discern Him who neither began nor ceases. Whence this same Truth also says in the Gospel: 'No one comes to the Father but by me' (John xiv, 6). And well is it subjoined: