God Unseen

Pelagus, inquit, operuit caput meum. Nec istud frustra de solo capite dicebat, quem absque dubio pelagus omni ex parte contexerat; sed celavit contumelia mundi Dominum coeli. Caput viri Christus, caput autem Christi Deus. Velavit humilitas mea gloriam meam, et Deus, qui quasi caput inerat Christo mundum reconcilians sibi, ab eis qui hominem patibulo confixerant, non potuit pervideri. Sancti Aviti Viennensis, Ex Sermone de Jona Source: Migne PL 59.305c-d

The sea, he says, covered my head. 1 He does not speak foolishly of his head alone, since without doubt the sea covered every part of him, but the contumely of the world obscures the Lord of heaven. The head of man is Christ, the head of Christ is God. 2 My humility has covered my glory, and God, who as a head inhered in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself, 3 was not able to be seen by those who had fastened a man to a gibbet. Saint Avitus of Vienne, Fragment from a Sermon on Jonah 1 Jonah 2.6 2 1 Cor 11.3 3 2 Cor 5.19