“Now the subject of God is harder to come at, in proportion as it is more perfect than any other, and is open to more objections, and the solutions of them are more laborious. For every objection, however small, stops and hinders the course of our argument and cuts off its further advance, just like people who suddenly…”
Gregory of Nazianzus, 4th c. — ON THEOLOGY, THEOLOGICAL ORATION 2 (28).21
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23All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.
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21Also take no heed unto all words that are spoken; lest thou hear thy servant curse thee:
22For oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others.
— Ecclesiastes 7:23 —
24That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out?
25I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness: