That the Light of Tabor Is Uncreated

¹ Whoever says that the Light which shone round about the disciples on Tabor was an apparition and a symbol of such a kind as to come into being and pass away, and not properly to be, and not above all understanding but rather an energy inferior to understanding, plainly speaks against the opinions of the saints. For these, both in their hymns and in their writings, address it as ineffable, uncreated, eternal, timeless, unapproachable, boundless, infinite, illimitable, invisible to angels and to men, an archetypal and unalterable beauty, the glory of God, the glory of Christ, the glory of the Spirit, a ray of the Godhead, and the like. “For the flesh,” he says, “is glorified at the moment of its assumption, and the glory of the body becomes the glory of the Godhead. But the glory was unseen in the visible body to those who could not contain what is invisible even to angels. He is transfigured, therefore, not by taking on what He was not, nor by being changed into what He was not, but by being made manifest to His own disciples as what He was, opening their eyes and making them see, who had been blind. For while remaining the same as Himself, He now appeared to the disciples seen otherwise than He had appeared before. For He Himself is the true thing, the comeliness of glory; and though He shone as the sun, the image is faint—for it is impossible that the uncreated be imaged in creation without defect.”