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Only this I have found, that God made man right, and he hath entangled himself with an infinity of questions. Who is as the wise man? and who hath known the resolution of the word?

DOUAY-RHEIMS

Translations

GRATIS-FR-FILL

J'ai trouvé seulement cela, c'est que Dieu a créé l'homme droit, et qu'il s'est lui-même embarrassé dans des questions sans fin. Qui est comme le sage? et qui connaît l'explication des choses?

DOUAY-RHEIMS

Only this I have found, that God made man right, and he hath entangled himself with an infinity of questions. Who is as the wise man? and who hath known the resolution of the word?

Patristic reading

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  • Thomas Aquinas

    Summa Theologica

    are prone in stature. Therefore man should not be of erect stature. On the contrary, It is written ( Eccles. 7:30 ): "God made man right." I answer that, All natural things were produced by the Divine art, and so may be called God's works of art. Now every artist intends to give…
  • Thomas Aquinas

    Summa Theologica

    gible creatures, because he is distracted by and occupied with sensible things. Now, it is written ( Eccles. 7:30 ): "God made man right." And man was made right by God in this sense, that in him the lower powers were subjected to the higher, and the higher nature was made so as…
  • Thomas Aquinas

    Summa Theologica

    man was endowed by God, seems to require that, as others say, he was created in grace, according to Eccles. 7:30, "God made man right." For this rectitude consisted in his reason being subject to God, the lower powers to reason, and the body to the soul: and the first subjection…

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