Origen: "No one can apprehend the meaning of it"

"WE may therefore make bold to say that the Gospels are the first fruits of all the Scriptures, but that of the Gospels that of John is the first fruits. No one can apprehend the meaning of it except he have lain on Jesus' breast and received from Jesus Mary to be his mother also."

~Origen of Alexandria (185-232): Commentary on the Gospel of John, Bk. I, Chap. 6. 

Origen. Illustration from Les Vrais Portraits Et Vies Des Hommes Illustres

by André Thévet (1516-1590).