God, however, did not leave us in absolute
ignorance. For the knowledge of God’s existence has been
implanted by Him in all by nature. This creation, too, and its
maintenance, and its government, proclaim the majesty of the Divine
nature Wisd. xiii. 5.. Moreover,
by the Law and the Prophets Greg. Naz.,
Orat. 34. in former times and
afterwards by His Only-begotten Son, our Lord and God and Saviour Jesus
Christ, He disclosed to us the knowledge of Himself as that was
possible for us. All things, therefore, that have been delivered
to us by Law and Prophets and Apostles and Evangelists we receive, and
know, and honour Dionys., De div.
nom., c. 1., seeking for
nothing beyond these. For God, being good, is the cause of all
good, subject neither to envy nor to any passion Greg. Naz.,
Orat. 34.. For envy is far removed from the
Divine nature, which is both passionless and only good. As
knowing all things, therefore, and providing for what is profitable for
each, He revealed that which it was to our profit to know; but what we
were unable Reading ὃπερ δε οὐκ
ἐδυνάμεθα for
ὃπερ δὲ οὖν
ἐδυνάμεθα.
Cod. Reg. 3379 gives καὶ ὃ οὐ
δυνάμεθα. to bear He kept
secret. With these things let us be satisfied, and let us abide
by them, not removing everlasting boundaries, nor overpassing the
divine tradition Prov. xxii. 28..