Bones and Knowledge

Πάντα τὰ ὀστᾶ μου ἐροῦσιν Κύριε τίς ὅμοιός σοι;   Οἱ πάντα ἐκ ψιλῆς τῆς λέξεως καὶ οὐδὲν ἀλληγορικῶς ἐκλαμβάνειν ποθοῦντες ἐλεγχέσθωσαν καὶ ἐκ τοῦ προκειμένου στίχου. οὐδὲν γὰρ οὑτως ἠλίθιόν ἐστιν ὡς νομίσαι τὰ αἰσθητὰ ὀστᾶ ἐννοιαν ἐχειν θεοῦ, ὥστε ὑμνεῖν αὐτὸν καὶ εἰδέναι ὅτι οὐδεὶς ὁμοιος αὐτῷ. Περὶ γὰρ τῶν ὀστῶν τοῦ ἐσω ἀνθρώπου δυνάμεις δὲ αὐτοῦ καὶ δόγματα ἀληθῆ ταῦτα εἰρηται τὸ Πάντα τὰ ὀστᾶ μου· διὰ πάσης γὰρ ἐννοίας καὶ δόγματος ἀληθινοῦ ἐβεβαιώθην μηδὲν τῶν γεννητῶν ὁμοιον εἶναι τοῦ Κυρίου· μόνος γὰρ αὐτὸς εἰκὼν τοῦ θεοῦ τοῦ ἀοράτου καὶ χαρακτὴρ θεϊκῆς ὑποστάσεώς ἐστιν. Δίδυμος Αλεξανδρεύς, Εἰς Ψαλμους, Ψαλμος ΛΔ'

All my bones cry out, 'Lord who is like you?' 1 They who wish to understand everything literally and nothing allegorically, this verse refutes, for nothing is so absurd than to believe that corporeal bones have knowledge of God so that they celebrate Him and that they know nothing to be similar to Him. But rather have the bones within a man as his virtues and true teaching, and that these things are spoken of with 'All my bones'; for through every true knowledge and teaching they are strengthened who are created nothing like God. Only the Son is the image of the invisible God and He is the mark of the Divine substance. Didymus the Blind, Commentary on the Psalms, from Psalm 34 1 Ps 34.10