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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
"I have proved all this by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me." "That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out? "Just as is attested in the Book of Kings [Cfr. III Reg. 3. 4.] he says that he sought wisdom more than other men, and tried to reach the pinnacle, but the more he sought, the less he found, and in the midst of his confusion, he was surrounded by the darkness if ignorance. …
John Cassian
But already the approach of dawn is bringing to a close our discussion, which has occupied nearly two whole nights, and our brief and simple words have drawn our bark of this Conference from the deep sea of questions to a safe harbour of silence, in which deep indeed, as the breath of the Divine Spirit drives us further in, so is there ever opened out a wider and boundless space reaching beyond the sight of our eye, and, as Solomon says, "It will become much further from us than it was, and a great depth; who shall find it out?" …
Bonaventure
As to the sublimity of the inquiry he says: "And she withdrew farther from me than she was before," because the question seemed to him more difficult the more he inquired, and this by the divine severity of judgment: Romans 1: "Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools" — and by the loftiness of the question: therefore he says: "And a deep profundity, who shall find it?" Deep is the profundity of the inquiry of wisdom: Sirach 24: "I dwelt in the highest places, and my throne was in a pillar of cloud." And therefore who can …
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