Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Daniel 5:12

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 7, page 292, footnote 4 (Image)

Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen

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CCEL Footnote 3449 (In-Text, Margin)

... listen to, and in accordance with the present manner of discourse, which despises noble simplicity, and has introduced a crooked and intricate style? That the tree may be known by its fruits; I mean, that the darkness which is at work in such teaching may be known by the obscurity of the arguments. For my purpose in doing so was, not to get credit for myself for astonishing utterances, or excessive wisdom, through tying knots and solving difficulties (this was the great miraculous gift of Daniel),[Daniel 5:12] but to make clear the point at which my argument has aimed from the first. And what was this? That the Divine Nature cannot be apprehended by human reason, and that we cannot even represent to ourselves all its greatness. And this not out of envy, ...