Ante-Nicene Fathers — Vol. 02 — CCEL UTF-8 text — Section 1759
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Work: Ante-Nicene Fathers — Volume 2
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Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. 2
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Wherefore also Moses says, "Show Thyself to me," [3073] --intimating most clearly that God is not capable of being taught by man, or expressed in speech, but to be known only by His own power. For inquiry was obscure and dim; but the grace of knowledge is from Him by the Son. Most clearly Solomon shall testify to us, speaking thus: "The prudence of man is not in me: but God giveth me wisdom, and I know holy things." [3074] Now Moses, describing allegorically the divine prudence, called it the tree of life planted in Paradise; which Paradise may be the world in which all things proceedi…
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