Augustine: "a thing is not ineffable which can be called ineffable"

There is some contradiction of terms, since, if that is ineffable which cannot be spoken of, a thing is not ineffable which can be called ineffable" (Christian Instruction 1.6.6)

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"[...]we ought narrowly to scrutinize our Father's characteristics, that by fashioning and framing ourselves to the likeness of our Father[...]"

"[...]man was brought into the world last after the creation, not being rejected to the last as worthless, but as one whom it behoved to be king over his subjects at his very birth."

Nein!(?) A negative "point of contact" in the Epistle to Diognetus?