God Has No Body or Shape
For what is free of body would also be free of shape, since the divine has neither size nor shape.
But if they think that God himself, who is over all, was shaped after the nature of the human body, let them say whether he too has feet to walk with, hands to work with, and eyes to see with.
Where, then, does he walk?
Or from what place does he go, and to what place, he who fills all things?
For he said, “Do I not fill heaven and earth? says the Lord” (Jeremiah 23:24).
And what hands does he set to work, he who creates through the living Word?
And if, like us, he has eyes set in a face, then surely he does not see what is behind him.
When he looks toward the east, is he then unaware of what people in the west are doing?
And when he turns to the west again, can he not see those in the east?
I am ashamed even to write these things, but because of the senselessness of some I have become a fool (2 Corinthians 12:11).
Greek
τὸ γὰρ ἔξω σώματος, ἔξω καὶ σχήματος εἴη ἄν. ἄποσον γὰρ καὶ ἀσχημάτιστόν ἐστι τὸ θεῖον. εἰ δὲ νομίζουσιν, ὅτι κατὰ τὴν τοῦ ἀνθρωπίνου σώματος φύσιν ἐσχηματίσθη καὶ αὐτὸς ὁ ἐπὶ πάντων Θεὸς, λεγέτωσαν εἰ καὶ αὐτὸς ἔχει πόδας ἵνα περιπατῇ , χεῖρας ἵνα δι' αὐτῶν ἐργάζηται, καὶ ὀφθαλμοὺς ἵνα βλέπῃ δι' αὐτῶν. ποῦ τοίνυν περιπατεῖ; ἢ ἐκ ποίων τόπων εἰς ποίους ἀπέρχεται ὁ τὰ πάντα πληρῶν; ἔφη γάρ "Μὴ οὐχὶ τὸν οὐρανὸν καὶ τὴν γῆν "ἐγὼ πληρῶ λέγει Κύριος;" ἢ ποίας χεῖρας εἰς ἔργα κινεῖ ὁ διὰ ζῶντος Λόγου δημιουργῶν; καὶ εἰ καθ' ἡμᾶς ἔχει τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς ὡς ἐν προσώπῳ κειμένους, οὐχ ὁρᾷ που πάντως τὰ ὀπίσω· ἀλλ' ὅταν πρὸς ἀνατολὰς βλέπῃ , οὐκ οἶδε τί πράττουσιν οἱ ἐν δυσμαῖς; κἂν εἰς δυσμὰς ἴδῃ πάλιν, οὐχ ὁρᾷ τοὺς ἐν ταῖς ἀνατολαῖς; ταῦτα καὶ γράφειν αἰσχύνομαι, διὰ δὲ τὴν τινῶν ἀπόνοιαν γέγονα