The Complex Garment of Words

"It is by means of the more lofty conceptual images that the inner principle of Holy Scripture can be stripped gradually of the complex garment of words with which it is physically draped.  Then to the visionary intellect - the intellect which through the total abandonment of its natural activities is able to attain a glimpse of the simplicity that in some measure discloses this principle - it reveals itself as though in the sound of a delicate breeze."


St. Maximos the Confessor (580-662), First Century on Theology and the Incarnate Dispensation of the Son of God