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Job 11:7

Job 11:7 (WEB)

“Can you fathom the mystery of God? Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty?

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Cyril of Jerusalem

  • “Wilt thou find a footstep of the Lord? saith Job, or hast thou attained unto the least things which the Almighty hath made?” — editor's note: Job xi. 7 (R.V.): Canst thou by searching find out God? Canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? Cyril seems to have understood τὰ ἔσχατα as “the…

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Augustine of Hippo

  • “…clear therein; because we submit our understanding unto it, and esteem as certain that even that which is shut up from our sight is rightly and truly spoken.” — editor's note: In his De Civ. Dei, xi. 3, he defines very distinctly (as he does in other of his writings) the knowledge received “by sight”—that is, by experience, as…

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