with the outward eyes, not only the disciples who honored Him saw, but also the Jews who crucified Him.  He, then, who wished to be seen in another way, sought for other eyes.  And, therefore, it was that to him who said, “Show us the Father, and it sufficeth us,” He answered, “Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known Me, Philip?  He who hath seen Me hath seen the Father also.”  And that He might in the meanwhile heal the eyes of faith, He has first of all given him instructions regarding faith, that so he might attain to sight.  And lest Philip should think that he was to conceive of God under the same form in which he then saw the Lord Jesus Christ in the body, he immediately subjoined, “Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me?” He had already said, “He who hath seen me hath seen the Father also.”  But Philip’s eye was not yet sound enough to see the Father, nor, consequently, to see the Son, who is Himself coequal with the Father.  And so Jesus Christ took in hand to cure, and with the medicine and salve of faith to strengthen the eyes of his mind, which as yet were weak and unable to behold so great a light, and He said, “Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me?” Let not him, then, who can not yet see what the Lord will one day show him, seek first to see what he is to believe; but let him first believe that the eye by which he is to see may be healed.  For it was only the form of the servant which was exhibited to the eyes of servants; because if “He who thought it not robbery to be equal with God” could have been now seen as equal with God by those whom He wished to be healed, He would not have needed to empty Himself and to take the form of a servant.  But because there was no way whereby God could be seen, but whereby man could be seen there was; therefore, He who was God was made man, that that which was seen might heal that whereby He was not seen.  For He saith Himself in another place, “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.”  Philip might, of course, have answered and said, Lord, do I see Thee?  Is the Father such as I see Thee to be?  Forasmuch as Thou hast said, “He who hath seen Me hath seen the Father also?” But before Philip answered thus, or perhaps before he so much as thought it, when the Lord had said, “He who hath seen Me hath seen the Father also,” He immediately added, “Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me?” For with that eye he could not yet see either the Father, or the Son who is equal with the Father; but that his eye might be healed for seeing, he was anointed unto believing.  So, then, before thou seest what thou canst not now see, believe what as yet thou seest not.  “Walk by faith,” that thou mayest attain to sight.  Sight will not gladden him in his home whom faith consoleth not by the way.  For, so says the apostle, “As long as we are in the body we are absent from the Lord.”  And he subjoins immediately why we are still “absent or in pilgrimage,” tho we have now believed; “For we walk by faith,” he says; “not by sight.”