Gregory the Dialogist

We cannot worthily find Him out. He is great in power, and judgment, and justice, and cannot be spoken of. Even if we can now find Him out, yet not worthily. For whatever we perceive in Him, is of faith, and not of sight. But yet he adds that which he considers he has found, saying; He is great in power, and judgment, and justice, and cannot be spoken of. For He is great in power, because He overcomes the powerful adversary, and taking from his house the vessels of dishonour, changes them into vessels of mercy. [Matt. …

Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXVII ↗

Thomas Aquinas

So he says, "We cannot find him worthily," so as to come to know him as he is through our own investigation. This is because of his excellence, and so he says, "he is great in might," for his power infinitely exceeds all his effects, and so he cannot be fittingly found through them. He answers the objection that God uses only violence because of the greatness of his power in governing man saying "and with right judgment," for he is great, because, "His judgments are incomprehensible." (Rom. …

Commentary on Job ↗