text: St. Gregory of Nyssa thought so (from Commentary on the Song of Songs):
  
  No one can adequately grasp the terms pertaining to God.  For example, "mother" is mentioned [in the Scriptures] in place of "father."  Both terms mean the same because the divine is neither male nor female (for how could such a thing be contemplated in divinity, when it [does not] remain intact permanently in us human beings either?  But when all shall be one in Christ, we shall be divested of the signs of this distinction together with the whole of the old man).  Therefore, every name found [in Scripture] is equally able to indicate the ineffable nature, since the meaning of the undefiled is contaminated by neither male nor female.