Gregory of Nyssa, on 1Tim 6:16

“Who only hath immortality, and inhabiteth light inaccessible, whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and empire everlasting. Amen.”

“But we, even when we are told that God "only has immortality," we understand by "immortality" the Son. For life is immortality, and the Lord is that life, who said, "I am the Life." And if he is said to dwell "in the light that no man can approach," again we make no difficulty in understanding that the true Light, unapproachable by falsehood, is the Only-begotten, in whom we learn from the Truth itself that the Father is. Are we to think of the Only-begotten in a manner worthy of the Godhead, or to call him, as heresy prescribes, perishable and temporary?”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.