God And Blessings

Εὐλογητὸς ὁ θεὸς καὶ πατὴρ τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, ὁ πατὴρ τῶν οἰκτιρμῶν καὶ θεὸς πάσης παρακλήσεως... Εὐλογητὸν τὸν θεόν φασιν οἱ θεῖοι λόγοι, οὐ τῷ εὐλογίαν δεδέχθαι ἀλλὰ τῷ παρέχειν αὐτήν· ὡς γὰρ ἅγιος καὶ ἀγαθὸς μόνος αὐτός, ἁγιάζων καὶ ἀγαθοὺς ποιῶν, καὶ οὐ γινόμενος ταῦτα ἅπερ ἑτέρους ποιεῖ, οὕτω μόνος εὐλογητός ἐστιν, εὐλογίαν παρέχων ἀλλ' οὐ δεχόμενος. οὗτος ὁ εὐλογητὸς θεὸς θεὸς καὶ πατὴρ τοῦ κυρίου Ἰησοῦ ὑπάρχει, θεὸς μὲν διὰ τὴν οἰκονομίαν, πατὴρ δὲ διὰ τὸ λόγον καὶ μονογενῆ υἱὸν ὑπάρχειν. Πατὴρ οἰκτιρμῶν ἐστι κατ' οὐσίαν, πηγὴ αὐτῶν τυγχάνων· οὐ γὰρ ἐξ ἀναλήψεως ἀρετῆς εὑρίσκεται τοιοῦτος οἷοί εἰσιν οἱ γινόμενοι οἰκτίρμονες. ὡς ὁ πατὴρ οὐράνιος, οἰκτίρμων ἐστίν· ὁ γὰρ τῶν οἰκτιρμῶν πατὴρ μεταδίδουσι τοῖς σπεύδουσι μιμεῖσθαι αὐτόν, οὐκ εἶναι ἀλλὰ γίνεσθαι οἰκτίρμοσιν. πρὸς τούτοις καὶ πάσης παρακλήσεως, ἐμπαθείας καὶ χάριτος ὢν θεός. αὕτη ἐστὶν ἐν ᾗ καὶ δι' ἧς παρακαλοῦνται πάντες οἱ ὑπὲρ ἀληθείας μᾶλλον δὲ εὐσεβείας θλιβόμενοι· οὕτω γὰρ καὶ τοὺς ἄλλους θλιβομένους ὄντας αὐτῶν ὑποδεεστέρους διδάξουσι παρακαλεῖσθαι ὑπὸ τῶν θλιβόντων. Δίδυμος Αλεξανδρεύς, Εἰς Τὴν Δευτέραν Ἐπιστολήν Παύλου Πρὸς Κορινθίους Source: Migne PG 39.1681c-1683a

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the merciful Father, the God who gives all consolation. 1 Sacred Scripture names God blessed, not as if He receives a blessing, but because He gives it. As indeed He alone is holy and good, because He makes holy and He makes good, nor does He do such a thing as to make a thing unlike; thus alone He is blessed, giving blessings and not receiving. This blessed God is God and Father of Lord Jesus; certainly His God on account of His humanity and His Father in as much as He is the Word and only begotten Son. The essence of the Father is mercy, insofar as He is the fount of it, for they are near to election, who are so by mercies bestowed. As the Father is heavenly, so He is merciful, and the Father of mercies He is to those who strive to imitate him, and as He gives, so they are not essentially but are made merciful. For these every consolation and compassion and grace is of God, in which and through which He consoles everyone who for truth, that is, piety, is afflicted. For then others afflicted, weaker than themselves, they shall teach to have consolation in their tribulations. Didymus the Blind, On The Second Letter of Paul to The Corinthians, Fragment 1. 2 Cor 1.3