Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VIII/Pseudo-Clementine Literature/The Clementine Homilies/Homily XVI/Chapter 17

Chapter XVII.&#8212;The Nature of God.

&#8220;We call Him God whose peculiar attributes cannot belong to the nature of any other; for, as He is called the Unbounded because He is boundless on every side, it must of necessity be the case that it is no other one&#8217;s peculiar attribute to be called unbounded, as another cannot in like manner be boundless.&#160; But if any one says that it is possible, he is wrong; for two things boundless on every side cannot co-exist, for the one is bounded by the other.&#160; Thus it is in the nature of things that the unbegotten is one.&#160; But if he possesses a figure, even in this case the figure is one and incomparable. &#160; Wherefore He is called the Most High, because, being higher than all, He has the universe subject to Him.&#8221;