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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
Which also the prophet said, "The heavens declare the glory of God." (Ps. xix. 1.) For what will the Greeks (i.e. Heathen) say in that day? That "we were ignorant of Thee?" Did ye then not hear the heaven sending forth a voice by the sight, while the well-ordered harmony of all things spake out more clearly than a trumpet? …
Theophylact of Ohrid
So it turned out in practice. God created the world not so that they would be without excuse; but so it turned out in practice. Note this peculiarity of Scripture and do not criticize it. In many places it contains such expressions, for the explanation of which one must seek the reason for what is mentioned in it through experience. Thus David says: "and done evil in Your sight, so that You are justified in Your sentence" (Ps. 50:6). This expression seems strange; but it is not so. …
Cosmas Indicopleustes
For the invisible things of him, saith the divine Apostle, are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and godhead; so that they may be without excuse; as if he said: The invisible things of God, namely, His power and wisdom and providence and goodness and His eternal godhead, we apprehend and see from things existent and visible, and through all His works we, in our measure, perceive the Creator, so that we cannot offer any excuse of ignorance (for this is what without excuse …
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
Invisible things are seen in a special and appropriate way. When they are seen they are much more certain than the objects of the bodily sense, but they are said to be invisible because they cannot be seen by mortal eyes.
Ambrose of Milan
For we easily understand that the author of the Angels and Dominations and Powers, who in the moment of His command made this great beauty of the world exist out of nothing, which did not exist before; and He did not give substance to existing things or causes.
Thomas Aquinas
Then when he says for the invisible things of him from the creation of the world, he shows the manner in which they received such knowledge. Here the first points to be considered are the things they have known about God. He mentions three. First, the invisible things of him, through which one understands God's essence, which, as was said, cannot be seen by us: no one has ever seen God (John 1:18), i.e., in his essence, no one living in this mortal life: to the king of ages, immortal, invisible (1 Tim 1:17). …
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