• γὰρ — SBLGNT
• γὰρ — Westcott-Hort
• δὲ — Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont

• ἀπεκάλυψεν ὁ θεὸς — SBLGNT
• ἀπεκάλυψεν ὁ θεὸς — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
• ὁ θεὸς ἀπεκάλυψεν — Robinson-Pierpont

• πνεύματος — SBLGNT
• πνεύματος — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
• + αὐτοῦ — Robinson-Pierpont

§2038In the work of teaching and applying Christian morality, the Church needs the dedication of pastors, the knowledge of theologians, and the contribution of all Christians and men of good will. Faith and the practice of the Gospel provide each person with an experience of life "in Christ," who enlightens him and makes him able to evaluate the divine and human realities according …

Perfect knowledge cannot be attained in the present life: many questions must be submissively left in the hands of God. 1. Having therefore the truth itself as our rule and the testimony concerning God set clearly before us, we ought not, by running after numerous and diverse answers to questions, to cast away the firm and true knowledge of God. But it is much more suitable tha…

2. And ye indeed say that you know even His substance, but that the Son not even the day, the Son, who is always in the bosom of the Father; and yet His substance is much greater than the days, even infinitely greater. How then, while assigning to yourselves the greater things, do you not allow even the less to the Son, in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.…

1. They that are spectators of the heathen games, when they have learned that a distinguished athlete and winner of crowns has come from any quarter, run all together to view his wrestling, and all his skill and strength; and you may see the whole theater of many ten thousands, all there straining their eyes both of body and mind, that nothing of what is done may escape them. S…

2. But we speak God's wisdom in a mystery. What mystery? For surely Christ says, Matthew 10:27. ηκούσατε rec. text ἀκούετε What you have heard in the ear, proclaim upon the housetops. How then does he call it a mystery? Because that neither angel nor archangel, nor any other…

1. Everywhere indeed a reverential mind is requisite, but especially when we say or hear anything of God: Since neither can tongue speak nor thought hear anything suitable to our God. And why speak I of tongue or thought? For not even the understanding which far excels these, will be able to comprehend anything accurately, when we desire to utter anything concerning God. For if…

1. The Power of Harmony in Relation to Prayer. Again I say unto you that if two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them. Matthew 18:19 The word symphony is strictly applied to the harmonies of sounds in music. And there are indeed among musical sounds some accordant and others discordant. But the Evangelic Scripture is fam…

Can any created intellect see the essence of God? Is the essence of God seen by the intellect through any created image? Can the essence of God be seen by the corporeal eye? Is any created intellectual substance sufficient by its own natural powers to see the essence of God? Does the created intellect need any created light in order to see the essence of God? Of those who see G…

Is God alone the efficient cause of grace? Is any disposition towards grace needed on the part of the recipient, by an act of free-will? Can such a disposition make grace follow of necessity? Is grace equal in all? May anyone know that he has grace? Article 1. Whether God alone is the cause of grace? Objection 1. It would seem that God alone is not the cause of grace. For it is…

Should wisdom be reckoned among the gifts of the Holy Ghost? What is its subject? Is wisdom only speculative or also practical? Is the wisdom that is a gift compatible with mortal sin? Is it in all those who have sanctifying grace? Which beatitude corresponds to it? Article 1. Whether wisdom should be reckoned among the gifts of the Holy Ghost? Objection 1. It would seem that w…

The perpetual agreement of the Catholic Church has maintained and maintains this too: that there is a twofold order of knowledge, distinct not only as regards its source, but also as regards its object. With regard to the source: we know in one by natural reason, in the other by divine faith. With regard to the object: because besides those things to which natural reason can at…

The religion of Christians is built upon the firm rock, upon Christ. That God exists and that He is good to mankind, no one can know unless the Spirit of God reveals it. Of ourselves we know nothing of God. He must draw us to Himself. Therefore our religion begins with God, not with man; it is His work, not ours.

We receive all these books and these only as holy and canonical, for the regulating, founding, and establishing of our faith. And we believe without a doubt all things contained in them—not so much because the church receives and approves them as such but above all because the Holy Spirit testifies in our hearts that they are from God, and also because they prove themselves to …

Basil asserts that the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God — a prerogative that belongs only to one who is divine. Just as no one knows a person's thoughts except the spirit within, so no one comprehends the things of God except the Spirit of God. This intimate knowledge proves the Spirit's divine nature.

Paul writes that the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God. No creature can fathom the infinite depths of the divine nature — only one who is divine can know God fully. The Spirit's ability to search and reveal the deepest things of God proves that He shares in the divine essence. He is not an external observer of God but an intimate participant in the divine life.