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John Chrysostom
Catena Aurea · Johannesevangelium 1
Joh 1, 18English original
No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
(in Joan. Hom. xiv. [xiii.] 1) Or thus; the Evangelist after shewing the great superiority of Christ’s gifts, compared with those dispensed by Moses, wishes in the next place to supply an adequate reason for the difference. The one being a servant was made a minister of a lesser dispensation: but the other Who was Lord, and Son of the King, brought us far higher things, being ever coexistent with the Father, and beholding Him. Then follows, No man hath seen God at any time, &c.