When speaking of how God is known, Christian thinkers favored the metaphor of seeing, not hearing. Beauty is the corollary of seeing. In the Scriptures many of the key terms used of God’s self-disclosure, words such as glory, splendor, light, image, and face, have to do with the delight of the eye. When we speak of the pleasure the eye takes in what it sees the term that comes to mind is beauty. The psalmist wrote, “One thing have I asked of the Lord…that I will behold the beauty of the Lord” (Ps. 27:4). As early as the second century the apologist Athenagoras of Athens included the term beauty in a list of word depicting God. The God we set before you, he says, is “encompassed by light, beauty, spirit, and indescribably power.” In his commentary on the Song of Songs Origen wrote that the “soul is moved by heavenly love and longing when it beholds the beauty and comeliness of the Word of God.” God’s revelation can be seen from the perspective of its ineffable beauty as well as of its truth and goodness