The answer
St. Justin Martyr says, “But pray that, above all things, the gates of light may be opened to you; for these things cannot be perceived or understood by all, but only by the man to whom God and His Christ have imparted wisdom.”101
St. Dionysius the Areopagite says, “That is why we must begin with a prayer before everything we do, but especially when we are about to talk of God.”102
Fr. Tadros Yacoub Malaty
Notes
101 St. Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho 7 (ANF 1:198).
102 St. Dionysius the Areopagite (Pseudo-Dionysius), “The Divine Names” in Pseudo-Dionysius: The Complete Works, trans., C. Luibheid (Paulist Press, 1987) 3.1: p. 68.