Michael Sells in "The Mystical Language of Unsaying" (1994) in the chapter on Meister Eckhart:
Eckhart says, "Were it the case that a fly had reason and could rationally seek out the eternal abyss of divine being, from which it came forth, we say that God, insofar as he is God, could not fulfill or satisfy the fly. Therefore pray God that we may be free of God."
The capitalisation is not accidental. Sells gives the medieval German. I'm drawn back to this again and again.
No wonder Eckhart came close to being burnt: his contemporary, Marguerite Porete, was.
Sells, Michael A. Mystical Languages of Unsaying. (1994), University of Chicago Press
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