“Paul the Apostle, writing to the Romans in his Epistle, as we have already shown above, expressed the likeness of this place, saying: For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth of God in unrighteousness, because that which is known of God is reve…”
Rabanus Maurus, 9th c. — Commentary on Wisdom, PL 109
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8Howbeit neither are they to be pardoned.
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6But yet for this they are the less to be blamed: for they peradventure err, seeking God, and desirous to find him.
7For being conversant in his works they search him diligently, and believe their sight: because the things are beautiful that are seen.
— Wisdom of Solomon 13:8 —
9For if they were able to know so much, that they could aim at the world; how did they not sooner find out the Lord thereof?
10But miserable are they, and in dead things is their hope, who call them gods, which are the works of men’s hands, gold and silver, to shew art in, and resemblances of beasts, or a stone good for nothing, the work of an ancient hand.