Job 11:7 (WEB)
“Can you fathom the mystery of God? Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty?
Fathers and councils · 2
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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Cross-references · 9
Cited together in Confessions XIII.23.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.23.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.23.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.23.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.23.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.23.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.23.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.23.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.23.