John Chrysostom on the madness of denying God’s incomprehensibility

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What are you heretics saying? His judgments are inscrutable, his ways are unsearchable, his peace surpasses all understanding, his gift is indescribable, what God has prepared for those who love him has not entered into the heart of man, his greatness has no bound, his understanding is infinite. Are all these incomprehensible while only God himself can be comprehended? What excessive madness would it be to say that?

Stop the heretic; do not let him get away. Tell me. What does Paul say? “Our knowledge is imperfect.” The heretic answers that Paul is not talking about God’s essence but about his governance of the universe. Very good, then. If he is talking about the governance of the universe, our victory is all the more complete. For if his governance of the universe is incomprehensible, then all the more so is God himself beyond our powers of comprehension. …

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