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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
Amazing! So then he wrote not the whole, nor so much as he should have written. But here the nature of the subject prevented it. Elsewhere, as in the case of the Hebrews and the Corinthians, the incapacity of the hearers. "Whereby, when ye read, ye can perceive," saith he, "my understanding in the mystery of Christ," i.e., how I knew, how I understood either such things as God hath spoken, or else, that Christ sitteth at the right hand of God; and then too the dignity, in that God "hath not dealt so with any nation." And then to …
Theophylact of Ohrid
I wrote, he says, not as much as I ought, but according to your capacity and ability to receive. And from this you can perceive and understand my comprehension of the mystery of Christ, that is, how I understood the mystery of Christ, or how I understood that He sits at the right hand of the Father and seated us with Himself, that in Himself He created both into one new man, and the rest pertaining to the mystery. Understand then the worthiness of my comprehension from the fact that God revealed so much to me. …
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
Nevertheless, note that Augustine remarks how a doctor should aim at being understood. As long as he strives for this his words are not superfluous, but if he remains on a point after he is understood he wastes his words. He adds my prudence since "the knowledge of the holy is prudence" (Prov. 9:10). This is not worldly but divine and heavenly, for which reason he states in the mystery of Christ.
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