First it must be remembered that God
is incorporeal. He does not consist of certain parts and distinct members,
making up one body. For we read in the Gospel that God is spirit: invisible,
therefore, and an eternal nature, immeasurable and self-sufficient. It is also
written that a spirit does not have flesh and bones. For of these the members
of a body consist, and of these the substance of God has no need. God, however,
who is everywhere and in all things, is all-hearing, all-seeing, all-doing, and
all-assisting. . . . The power of God, therefore, which is equal and
inseparable, has the names of functions and members. Thus the power by which He
sees is called eyes; the power of which He hears is called ears; the power by
which He does things is called hands; the power by which He is present is
called feet: and so on, through the various functions of His power. (Hilary of
Poitiers, Commentaries on the Psalms, On 129 [130] §3, c. A.D. 365, in The
Faith of the Early Fathers, 3 vols. [trans. William A. Jurgens; Collegeville,
Minn.: The Liturgical Press, 1970], 1:387)
