Romans 1:20

“He shows that "ignorance of God" is the principle and explanation of all moral deviations.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Rom 1:18-32.

“Beyond the natural knowledge that every man can have of the Creator,” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Acts 17:24-29; Rom 1:19-20.

“Ever since the creation of the world his invisible nature, namely, his eternal power and deity, has been clearly perceived in the things that have been made.” — Catechism footnote: Rom 1:19-20; cf., Acts 14:15, 17; 17:27-28; Wis 13:1-9.

“Likewise, sin frequently manifests itself in the history of Israel, especially as infidelity to the God of the Covenant and as transgression of the Law of Moses. and even after Christ's atonement, sin raises its head in countless ways among Christians.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Gen 4:3-15; 6:5, 12; Rom 1:18-32; I Cor 1-6; Rev 2-3.

“"God, who creates and conserves all things by his Word, provides men with constant evidence of himself in created realities. and furthermore, wishing to open up the way to heavenly salvation - he manifested himself to our first parents from the very beginning."” — Catechism footnote: DV 3; cf. Jn 1:3; Rom 1:19-20

“But, because of sin, both polytheism and the idolatry of the nation and of its rulers constantly threaten this provisional economy with the perversion of paganism.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Rom 1:18-25.

“…tells us in his epistle: “For the invisible things of Him are clearly seen from the creation of the world, being understood by the things that are made;” and as Plato too might inform our heretics: “The things which appear are the image of the things which are concealed from view,” whence it must needs follow…” — editor's note: Rom. i. 20.

“They are, however, His “invisible things,” which, according to the apostle, “are from the creation of the world clearly seen by the things that are made;” they are no parts of a nondescript Matter, but they are the sensible evidences of Himself.” — editor's note: Rom. i. 20.

“…he is guilty both of impudence and malignity: of impudence, in aspiring after a belief which is not due to him, and for which he has provided no foundation; of malignity, in having brought many persons under the charge of unbelief by furnishing to them no groundwork for their faith.” — editor's note: Compare Rom. i. 20, a passage which is quite subversive of Marcion’s theory.

“…and He had offenders in those wise and prudent ones who would not seek after God, although He was to be discovered in His so many and mighty works, or who rashly philosophized about Him, and thereby furnished to heretics their arts; and lastly, He is a jealous God.” — editor's note: Rom. i. 20–23.

“…to man, as primary witnesses for the knowledge of Himself, nature in her (manifold) works, kindly providences, plagues, and indications (of His divinity), but who in spite of all this evidence has not been acknowledged; or he who has been brought out to view once for all in one only copy of the gospel—and even…” — editor's note: Prædicationibus: see Rom. i. 20.

“…even His eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: because that, when they knew God, they glorified Him not as God, neither were thankful.”” — editor's note: Cf. Rom. i. 20–22.

“Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.”” — editor's note: Cf. Rom. i. 18–23.

“…not seen;” and also to these, “For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made,”—we might say that he who dwells amid the “invisible” things, and what are called generally “things not seen,” is gone out of the world, the Word having removed…” — editor's note: Cf. Rom. i. 20.

“For it is not in any secret writings, perused only by a few wise men, but in such as are most widely diffused and most commonly known among the people, that these words are written: “The invisible things of God from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made.”” — editor's note: Rom. i. 20.

“Concerning the ‘eternal power’ of God in Rom. i. 20, which is shewn to mean the Son.” — the author cites it

“And ‘the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made;’ and neither the light is as the night, nor the sun as the moon; nor the irrational as rational man; nor the Angels as the Thrones, nor the Thrones as the…” — editor's note: Rom. i. 20.

“And from the visible creation, we clearly discern that His invisible things also, ‘being perceived by the things that are made,’ are not independent of each other; for it was not first one and then another, but all at once were constituted after their kind.” — editor's note: Rom. i. 20.

“And this is what Paul said, ‘Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shewed it unto them: for the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made.’” — editor's note: Rom. i. 19, 20.

“In the words of the divine Apostle, For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made.” — editor's note: Rom. i. 20.

“But to us, as saith the word of Wisdom, He makes Himself known that He is “by the greatness and beauty of His creatures proportionately” to the things that are known, vouchsafing to us the gift of faith by the operations of His hands, but not the comprehension of what He is.” — editor's note: Wisdom of Solomon xiii. 5. “For by the greatness and beauty of the creatures proportionately (ἀναλόγως) the maker of them is seen.” Compare Romans i. 20.

“…invisible things of Him from the foundation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead.”” — editor's note: Rom. i. 20.

“…us “to see the invisible things of God from the creatures of the world, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead,” from this great and orderly arrangement of the fabric of the world; and to contemplate them from the existence of everything in it), yet none of these things…” — editor's note: Rom. i. 20.

“And Thou criedst to me from afar, “Yea, verily, ‘I Am that I Am.’”” — editor's note: Ex. iii. 14. Augustin, when in his De Civ. Dei (viii. 11, 12) he makes reference to this text, leans to the belief, from certain parallels between Plato’s…

“And most certain I was that Thy “invisible things from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even Thy eternal power and Godhead.”” — editor's note: Rom. i. 20.

“…books of the Platonists, and being admonished by them to search for incorporeal truth, I saw Thy invisible things, understood by those things that are made; and though repulsed, I perceived what that was, which through the darkness of my mind I was not allowed to contemplate,—assured that Thou wert, and wert…” — editor's note: Rom. i. 20.

“And also the heaven, and earth, and all that is therein, behold, on every side they say that I should love Thee; nor do they cease to speak unto all, “so that they are without excuse.”” — editor's note: Rom. i. 20.

“…to take heed; and exploring only so much of this temporal nature as is sufficient that eternity may be “clearly seen, being understood by the things that are.”” — editor's note: Rom. i. 20.

“…soul, and I find it not, yet still I have thought on these things, and wishing to “see the invisible things of my God, being understood by the things made,” I have poured forth my soul above myself, and there remains no longer any being for me to attain to, save my God.” — editor's note: Rom. i. 20.

“Be therefore like Him in piety, and earnest in meditation: for “the invisible things of Him are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made;” look upon the things that are made, admire them, seek their author.” — editor's note: Rom. i. 20.

““Generation and generation shall praise Thy works” (ver. 4).” — editor's note: Rom. i. 20.

“When thou seest all these things, and rejoicest, and art lifted up to the Maker, and gazest on “His invisible things understood by the things which are made,” “His confession is in earth and heaven:” that is, thou confesseth to Him from things on earth, thou confesseth to Him from things in heaven.” — editor's note: Rom. i. 20.

“Set aside corruption, reject from the eye of the mind all carnal passions, and behold “the invisible things of God understood by the means of the things that are made.”” — editor's note: Rom i. 20.

“…invisible things of God, from the creation of the world, are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead.”” — editor's note: Rom. i. 20

“As though, because they have been able to understand the high and unchangeable substance by the things which are made, for this reason they had a claim to be consulted concerning the revolutions of mutable things, or concerning the connected order of the ages.” — editor's note: Rom. i. 20

“When therefore we regard the Creator, who is understood by the things that are made we must needs understand the Trinity of whom there appear traces in the creature, as is fitting.” — editor's note: Rom. i. 20

“…that “they changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.”” — editor's note: Rom. i. 18, 20

““For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made.”” — editor's note: Rom. i. 20

“…have warned those who demand a reason on such subjects to behold and understand His invisible things, so far as they could, by those things which are made and especially by the rational or intellectual creature which is made after the image of God; through which glass, so to say, they might discern as far as they…” — editor's note: Rom. i. 20

“Let us consider the creatures (“for the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made”), if haply in the things which God hath made, with which we have some familiarity of intercourse, we may find some resemblance, whereby we may prove that there…” — editor's note: Rom. i. 20.

““For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made.”” — editor's note: Rom. i. 20.

“And lest thou think that it is with mine own words that I have exhorted thee; hear the Apostle saying, “For the invisible things of God from the creation of the world are clearly seen by those things which are made.”” — editor's note: Rom. i. 20.

“Ask the world, the beauty of the heaven, the brilliancy and ordering of the stars, the sun, that sufficeth for the day, the moon, the solace of the night; ask…” — editor's note: Rom. i. 20.

“Therefore that which is known of God He manifested to them when His invisible things were seen by them, being understood by those things which have been made; also His eternal power and Godhead by whom all visible and temporal things have been created.” — editor's note: Rom. i. 19, 20.

“For His invisible things from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things which are made, also His eternal power and Godhead.”” — editor's note: Rom. i. 19, 20.

“For His invisible things from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by those things which have been made, also His eternal power and Godhead.”” — editor's note: Rom. i. 20.

“…and governing all things, material as well as spiritual, and shall see Him, not as now we understand the invisible things of God, by the things which are made, and see Him darkly, as in a mirror, and in part, and rather by faith than by bodily vision of material appearances, but by means of the bodies we shall wear…” — editor's note: Rom. i. 20.

“It follows, when he says more plainly: “Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.”” — editor's note: Rom. i. 20–22.

““Because, knowing God” (he said not, “because they knew Him not”), “they glorified Him not as God, nor were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened: professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.”” — editor's note: Rom. i. 19–22.

“The Apostle says that God’s Power and Godhead are eternal, and that Christ is the Power of God—for it is written that Christ is “the Power of God and the Wisdom of God.”” — editor's note: Rom. i. 20—“His eternal power and Godhead.” 1 Cor. i. 23–24—“We preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling-block and to the Gentiles foolishness, but to…

“And therefore we do declare the Son to be Eternal Power; if, then, His Power and Godhead be eternal, surely His Sovereignty is eternal also.” — editor's note: Cf. Rom. i. 20.

““For the invisible things of Him,” says the Apostle, “from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by those things which are made.”” — editor's note: Rom. i. 20.

“For you read elsewhere: “That the invisible things of God, since the creation of the world, are understood through those things which have been made; His eternal power also and Godhead are estimated by His works.”” — editor's note: Rom. i. 20.

““For,” as the Apostle says, “the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made.”” — editor's note: Rom. i. 20.

“For the visible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, and His power and divinity are eternal.” — editor's note: cf. Rom. i. 20.

“And again; “for the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead.”” — editor's note: Rom. i. 20.

“For, as we perceive His wisdom, His goodness, and all His invisible things from the creation of the world, so we know Him.” — editor's note: cf. Rom. i. 20.

“For God desired that His invisible things should be understood by the creation of this world ( Rom. i. 20 ), but they having left these and refused to come by this mode of teaching, cut out for themselves another way, and so were cast out from the true.” — the author cites it

“And again Paul, “Because that which may be known of God is manifested in them, that they may be without excuse” ( Rom. i. 19, 20 ); yet He showed it not unto them for this, that they might be deprived of excuse, but that they might obtain excuse.” — the author cites it

“…things of Him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even His everlasting power and divinity.” — editor's note: Rom. i. 20.

“…while we avoid their dangers; not raising creation, as foolish men do, in revolt against the Creator, but from the works of nature apprehending the Worker, and, as the divine apostle says, bringing into captivity every thought to Christ: and again, as we know that neither fire, nor food, nor iron, nor any other of…” — editor's note: Rom. i. 20, 25.

“…so that “the invisible things of God may be perceived and seen through the things which are made,” and men may serve the Creator of all, not His creatures.” — editor's note: Cf. Rom. i. 20 and 25.

“…figureless, the cause of all figures to those things that are moulded into shapes,—“and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet.”” — editor's note: Rom. i. 20–27.

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From the greatness and beauty of created things their Creator is known.