32. Consider, my Reader, what kind of idea you can have of a Son born from eternity. Is it not such an idea as immediately flees of its own accord and so vanishes? Then, in the absence of any idea, there is only sound with which no thought has anything in common. Is it thus that God is to be thought of? Whereas if reflection is brought to bear upon the idea which has now been presented, then the idea becomes an intelligible one in which alone there can be faith.