Annotatio LXXVIII
”Noah a just man, and perfect.” — Genesis 6:9
Chrysostom, at the end of the 23rd homily on Genesis, explaining this, has this proposition:1 “The flashing majesty of the divine glory neither the Cherubim nor those incorporeal powers can see; but they cover their opposed faces, their wings being set against [it].” The Armenian heretics, who taught that God is not seen by the blessed, used this and very many other similar sentences of Chrysostom;2 the elucidation of which you have in Annotation 182 of the following book.