1 Corinthians 2:10 (WEB)
But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.
Catechism · 3
I Believe
“No one comprehends the thoughts of God, except the Spirit of God."” — Catechism footnote: I Cor 2:10-11.
The Church, Mother and Teacher
“Faith and the practice of the Gospel provide each person with an experience of life "in Christ," who enlightens him and makes him able to evaluate the divine and human realities according to the Spirit of God.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. 1 Cor 2:10-15.
I Believe in God
“By sending his only Son and the Spirit of Love in the fullness of time, God has revealed his innermost secret:” — Catechism footnote: Cf. I Cor 2:7-16; Eph 3:9-12.
Fathers and councils · 28
Irenaeus of Lyons
“For although the Spirit of the Saviour that is in Him “searcheth all things, even the deep things of God,” yet as to us “there are diversities of gifts, differences of administrations, and diversities of operations;” and we, while upon the earth, as Paul also declares, “know in part, and prophesy in part.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 10.
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Gregory of Nyssa
“But neither does the Holy Spirit require instruction by speech, for being God, as saith the Apostle, He “searcheth all things, yea the deep things of God.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 10.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“…of manifold power; having many operations, yet not Himself divided; Who knoweth the mysteries, Who searcheth all things, even the deep things of God: Who descended upon the Lord Jesus Christ in form of a dove; Who wrought in the Law and in the Prophets; Who now also at the season of Baptism sealeth thy…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 10.
Read the whole comment“…less than His worthiness: for with the Son the Holy Ghost alone can rightly behold Him: for He searcheth all things, and knoweth even the deep things of God: as indeed the Only-begotten Son also, with the Holy Ghost, knoweth the Father fully: For neither, saith He, knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 10.
Read the whole comment“What else is there that knoweth the deep things of God, save only the Holy Ghost, who spake the Divine Scriptures?” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 10, 11.
Read the whole comment“For what man knoweth the thing of a man, save the spirit of the man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 10, 11.
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Origen
“…of the Holy Spirit, when He declares, “God hath revealed them to us by His Holy Spirit; for the Spirit searcheth all things, even the deep things of God;” and again in the Gospel, when the Saviour, speaking of the divine and profounder parts of His teaching, which His disciples were not yet able to receive, thus…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 10.
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Ambrose of Milan
“For it is written: “But God hath revealed them to us by His Spirit, for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea the deep things of God.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 10.
Read the whole comment“For if we say that the Holy Spirit is included amongst all things, certainly when we read that the Spirit searches the deep things of God, we deny that God the Father is over all.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 10.
Read the whole comment“But in like manner we also read of many things done through the Spirit, as you find: “But God hath revealed them to us through His Spirit;” and in another place: “Keep the good deposit through the Holy Spirit;” and to the Ephesians: “to be strengthened through His Spirit;” and to the Corinthians:…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 10.
Read the whole comment“Paul, in fine, was therefore chosen because he so believed and so taught, since, as it is written, God “hath revealed to us by His Spirit that which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor hath entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 9, 10.
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Augustine of Hippo
“By enemies to this dispensation, which has been wrought through Jesus Christ and Him crucified, we ought generally to understand all who forbid belief in things unknown, and promise certain knowledge: as all heretics do, and they who in the superstition of the Gentiles are called philosophers.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 6–10.
Read the whole comment“For had He showed Himself, the Jews would have seen and known Him; but had they “known Him, they would never have crucified the Lord of Glory.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 10.
Read the whole comment“…the gift of God a creature doth, God is said to do.…For hence has been said the following also, “For the Spirit searcheth all things, even the depth of God;” not because He that knoweth all things searcheth, but because to thee hath been given the Spirit, which maketh thee also to search: and that which by His own…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 10.
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John Chrysostom
“…of the Spirit ; for as he saith that the knowledge of the Father is one with that of the Spirit, as being indeed one, and in nought varying from itself ( 1 Cor. ii. 10–12 ): so also here he hath taken hold of one certain [thing] whereby to express the subsistence of the Two.” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“Moreover, “the Spirit indeed searcheth even the deep things of God,”and doth not He know so much as the time of the judgment?” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 10.
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Basil the Great
“If He is called Θεὸς because He “placed” or “beholds” all things, and the Spirit knoweth all the things of God, as the Spirit in us knoweth our things, then the Holy Ghost is God.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 10, 11. On the derivation of Θεός from θέω (τίθημι) or θεάομαι, cf. Greg. Naz. Skeat rejects the theory of connexion with the Latin Deus, and thinks…
Read the whole comment““God hath revealed him to us,” it is said, “by (διά) the spirit;” and in another place, “That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by (διά) the Holy Ghost;” and again, “To one is given by (διά) the spirit the word of wisdom.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 10.
Read the whole comment“The revelation of mysteries is indeed the peculiar function of the Spirit, as it is written, “God hath revealed them unto us by His Spirit.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 10.
Read the whole comment“He knows “The deep things of God;” the creature receives the manifestation of ineffable things through the Spirit.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 10, 11.
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Hilary of Poitiers
“Even so the things which are in God, none knoweth, save the Spirit of God.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 10, 11.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“All fear has been banished from souls, shamelessness has taken its place, and knowledge and the deep things of the Spirit are at the disposal of anyone who will; and we all become pious by simply condemning the impiety of others; and we claim the services of ungodly judges, and…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 10.
Read the whole comment“Who has opened the mouth of his mind and drawn in the Spirit, so as by Him that searcheth all things, yea the deep thing of God, to take in God, and no longer to need progress, since he already possesses the Extreme Object of desire, and That to which all the social life and all the…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 10.
Read the whole comment“And these two matters do not divide the Substance, as I understand it, but rather are divisions within the Substance.” — editor's note: Job xxxviii. 4, Ps. v. 10, xxxvi., cxxxix. 7–15, cxlii., Isa. xi. 1–3, xlviii. 16, Mal. iii. 6, Wisd. i. 2, John i. 14, iii. 24, xv. 26, xvi. 14, 15, Acts…
Read the whole comment“To search all things, yea, the deep things of God is, according to the testimony of S. Paul, the office of the Spirit, not because He is ignorant of them, but because He takes delight in their contemplation.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 10.
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Clement of Alexandria
“But those who possess the Holy Spirit “search the deep things of God,”—that is, grasp the secret that is in the prophecies.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 10.
Read the whole comment“For the Spirit searcheth all things, even the deep things of God.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 9, 10.
Read the whole comment“But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 10, 14.
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Cross-references · 12
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VI.18.
Cited together in Catechism §152.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VI.18.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VI.18.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VI.18.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VI.18.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VI.18.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VI.18.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VI.18.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit I.1.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VI.18.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit I.1.