Wisdom 13:5

“God's truth is his wisdom, which commands the whole created order and governs the world.” — Catechism footnote: Cf Wis 13:1-9.

“…discover - "from the greatness and beauty of created things comes a corresponding perception of their Creator," "for the author of beauty created them."” — Catechism footnote: Wis 13:3, 5.

“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.

“Consequently we can name God by taking his creatures" perfections as our starting point, "for from the greatness and beauty of created things comes a corresponding perception of their Creator".” — Catechism footnote: Wis 13:5

“This creation, too, and its maintenance, and its government, proclaim the majesty of the Divine nature.” — editor's note: Wisd. xiii. 5.

“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.

“The Divine Nature then it is impossible to see with eyes of flesh: but from the works, which are Divine, it is possible to attain to some conception of His power, according to Solomon, who says, For by the greatness and beauty of the creatures proportionably the Maker of them is seen.” — editor's note: Wisdom xiii. 5. Compare Theophilus of Antioch To Autolycus, I. 5, 6: “God cannot indeed be seen by human eyes, but is beheld and perceived through His…

“For by the greatness and beauty of the creatures proportionably the Maker of them is seen.”” — editor's note: Wisd. xiii. 1–5

“Then, while the devout soul was baffled and astray through its own feebleness, it caught from the prophet’s voice this scale of comparison for God, admirably expressed, By the greatness of His works and the beauty of the things that He hath made the Creator of worlds is rightly discerned.” — editor's note: Wisd. xiii. 5.

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Cited together in Catechism §2500.

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