John 1:18

Epistle of Ignatius to the Philippians

And there is also one Son, God the Word. For "the only-begotten Son," saith [the Scripture], "who is in the bosom of the Father."[12]

Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III

For "no man," he says, "hath seen God at any time," unless "the only-begotten Son of God, which is in the bosom of the Father, He hath declared [Him]."[137]

Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV

He who worketh all things in all is God, [as to the points] of what nature and how great He is, [God] is invisible and indescribable to all things which have been made by Him, but He is by no means unknown: for all things learn through His Word that there is one God the Father, who contains all things, and who grants existence to all, as is written in the Gospel: "No man hath seen God at any time, except the only-begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father; He has declared [Him.]"[287]

Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV

If, then, neither Moses, nor Elias, nor Ezekiel, who had all many celestial visions, did see God; but if what they did see were similitudes of the splendour of the Lord, And prophecies of things to come; it is manifest that the Father is indeed invisible, of whom also the Lord said, "No man hath seen God at any time."[299]

Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book V

And John the apostle says: "No man hath seen God at any time. The only-begotten God, who is in the bosom of the Father, He hath declared Him,"[153]

Tertullian An Answer to the Jews

For God the Father none ever saw, and lived.[170]

Tertullian Against Praxeas

and has Himself unfolded "the Father's bosom."[85]

Tertullian Against Praxeas

Behold, then, I find both in the Gospels and in the (writings of the) apostles a visible and an invisible God (revealed to us), under a manifest and personal distinction in the condition of both. There is a certain emphatic saying by John: "No man hath seen God at any time; "[172]

Tertullian Against Praxeas

as it were: "No man hath seen God at any time."[180]

Tertullian Against Praxeas " Well, (I must again ask,) what God does he mean? It is of course the Father, with whom was the Word, the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, and has Himself declared Him.[181]

Tertullian Against Praxeas

not, (observe,) as of the Father. He "declared" (what was in) "the bosom of the Father alone; "[245]

Tertullian Against Praxeas

His own bosom. For this is preceded by another statement: "No man hath seen God at any time."[246]

Origen de Principiis Book I

Not, as some suppose, that the nature of God is visible to some and invisible to others: for the apostle does not say "the image of God invisible" to men or "invisible" to sinners, but with unvarying constancy pronounces on the nature of God in these words: "the image of the invisible God." Moreover, John, in his Gospel, when asserting that "no one hath seen God at any time,"[18]

Origen de Principiis Book II

The following, then, are their declarations. It is written, that "no man hath seen God at any time."[48]

Origen Against Celsus Book II

and in these, "No man hath seen God at any time; the only-begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He hath declared Him."[190]

Origen Against Celsus Book VII

For the Scriptures plainly speak of God as of a being without body. Hence it is said, "No man hath seen God at any time; "[53]

Hippolytus Dogmatical and Historical Fragments

But if thou hast not known the image, which is the Son, how dost thou seek to see the Father? And that this is the case is made clear by the rest of the chapter, which signifies that the Son who "has been set forth[231]

Pseudo-Gregory Thaumaturgus On the Trinity

Now, if we can by no means apprehend things that are done in ourselves, how could it ever be that we should understand the mystery of the uncreated Creator, which goes beyond every mind? Assuredly, if this mystery were one that could be penetrated by man, the inspired John would by no means have affirmed this: "No man hath seen God at any time."[6]

Archelaus Acts of the Disputation with the Heresiarch Manes

Yea, would that even this had been all the length to which they had gone with their silly efforts, and that they had not declared that the only-begotten Christ, who has descended from the bosom of the Father,[23]

Archelaus Acts of the Disputation with the Heresiarch Manes

Furthermore, there is but one only inconvertible substance, the divine substance, eternal and invisible, as is known to all, and as is also borne out by this scripture: "No man hath seen God at any time, save the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father."[299]

Archelaus Acts of the Disputation with the Heresiarch Manes

: God forbid that I should admit that our Lord Jesus Christ came down to us through the natural womb of a woman! For He gives us His own testimony that He came down from the Father's bosom;[565]

Alexander Epistles on the Arian Heresy

the evangelist John sufficiently shows, when he thus writes concerning Him: "The only-begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father."[9]

Alexander Epistles on the Arian Heresy

does not condemn those who say there was a time when He was not? Who that hears these words of the Gospel, "the only-begotten Son; "[49]

Methodius Concerning Free-Will

Let us then also sing the like song, and raise the hymn to the Holy Father, glorifying in the Spirit Jesus, who is in His bosom.[2]

Methodius From the Discourse on the Resurrection

Therefore God alone is celebrated, as the unbegotten, independent, and unwearied nature; being incorporeal, and therefore invisible; for "no man hath seen God."[118]

Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book VII

After this he comes to the water, and blesses and glorifies the Lord God Almighty, the Father of the only begotten God;[189]

Clementine Homily XVI

the one happens to be self-begotten or unbegotten, they cannot be called the same; nor can it be asserted of him who has been begotten that he is of the same substance as he is who has begotten him?[56]