{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"5fddf067e74d742c7a4e862c9286868f5120e39076e14ec91fefdb8da5e6115c","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-anf-3831","native_reference":{"book_number":520,"chapter_from":11,"chapter_to":11,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":33,"verse_to":33},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p>Irenaeus Against Heresies Book I</p><p>For in reference to these points, and others of a like nature, the apostle exclaims: \"Oh! the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God; how unsearchable are His judgments, and His ways past finding out!\"[144]</p><p>Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book III</p><p>And the treasures of wisdom are unfailing, in admiration of which the apostle says, \"O the depth of the riches and the wisdom!\"[175]</p><p>Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book V</p><p>\" Consequently, therefore, the noble apostle exclaims, \"Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God!\"[144]</p><p>Tertullian Against Marcion Book II</p><p>With whom the apostle agreeing exclaims, \"Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are His judgments, and His ways past finding out!\"[21]</p><p>Tertullian Against Marcion Book V</p><p>For where had been their sin, if they only maintained the righteousness of their own God against one of whom they were ignorant? But he exclaims: \"O the depth of the riches and the wisdom of God; how unsearchable also are His ways!\"[673]</p><p>If Marcion had an object in his erasures,[675]</p><p>Origen de Principiis Book IV</p><p>And if any curious reader were still to ask an explanation of individual points, let him come and hear, along with ourselves, how the Apostle Paul, seeking to penetrate by help of the Holy Spirit, who searches even the \"deep things\" of God, into the depths of divine wisdom and knowledge, and yet, unable to reach the end, so to speak, and to come to a thorough knowledge, exclaims in despair and amazement, \"Oh the depth of the riches of the knowledge and wisdom of God!\"[12]</p><p>Now, that it was from despair of attaining a perfect understanding that he uttered this exclamation, listen to his own words: \"How unsearchable are God's judgments! and His ways, how past finding out! \"[13]</p><p>Cyprian Treatise XII Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews</p><p>Also in the Epistle of Paul to the Romans: \"Oh the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How incomprehensible are His judgments, and how unsearchable are His ways! For who has known the mind of the Lord? or who has been His counsellor? or who has first given to Him, and it shall be recompensed to him again? Because from Him, and through Him, and in Him, are all things: to Him be glory for ever and ever.\"[640]</p><p>A Treatise of Novatian Concerning the Trinity</p><p>For He has gone beyond the contemplation of the eyes who has surpassed the greatness of thought. \"For,\" it is said,\" of Him, and through Him, and in Him are all things.\"[20]</p><p>is that chariot of God with all things, both the angels themselves and the stars guide; and their movements, although various, yet bound by certain laws, we watch them guiding by the bounds of a time prescribed to themselves; so that rightly we also are now disposed to exclaim with the apostle, as he admires both the Architect and His works: \"Oh the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how inscrutable are His judgments, and His ways past finding out!\" And the rest.[48]</p><p>Methodius Oration Concerning Simeon and Anna</p><p>O wondrous circumstance! \"O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God!\"[26]</p><p>Origen Commentary on John Book II</p><p>Thus he who by the divine spirit searches all things, and even the deep things of God, so that he can exclaim,[5]</p>","source_html_sha256":"55ff931c2a7a3cf9792bbf47465a4e2d0f93c33e536d08937ae9639ff221295f","source_module":"ANF","source_row_id":3831,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/anf/","text_sha256":"9d961424c0f66a162b68d5350a342fad95a641a477b5720f88bb0d03e0ce3c6c","translator":null,"work":null}