Note 486 — Lecture IX. GREEK AND CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY. III. God as the Supreme Being.

The word σκία seems to be used, in relation to the Logos, not of the shadow cast by a solid object in the sunlight, but rather, as in Homer, Odyss. 10. 495, and frequently in classical writers, of a ghost or phantom: hence God is the παράδειγμα, the substance of which the Logos is the unsubstantial form, Leg. Alleg. 3. 31 (i. 106): hence also σκία is used as convertible with εἰκών (ibid.), in its sense of either a portrait-statue or a reflexion in a mirror: in de confus. ling. 28 (i. 427), the Logos is the eternal εἰκών of God.