Книга Премудрости Соломона, Глава 14, стих 30. Толкования стиха

THREE FALSE IDEAS ABOUT GOD. AUGUSTINE: Some attempt to apply to incorporeal and spiritual beings what they have perceived of corporeal beings through sensible experience or what they have learned about them thanks to the very nature of human intelligence, to keen reflection and with the aid of science. They want to measure and represent the former based on the latter. Others have an idea about God, if you can call this having an idea, consistent with the nature and affections of the human soul. From this error it follows that they discuss God based on incorrect and false principles. There are still others who attempt to transcend the created universe, which is obviously changeable, and to raise their vision to that unchanging being that is God. But, weighed down by their mortal nature and wanting to appear wise in what they do not know, and incapable of knowing what they want to know, they insist too boldly on conjectures. They thus preclude the ways of understanding, preferring to persist in their mistaken opinions rather than changing the opinion they once defended. This is the true evil of the three categories of persons we have just spoken of: those who think of God after the manner of bodily beings, those who conceive of him in a way consistent with spiritual creatures, like the soul, and finally those who, though keeping well away from corporeal and spiritual things, “thought erroneously about God,” distancing themselves even more from the truth in that their idea of God is drawn neither from sensible experience, nor from spiritual creatures nor from the Creator himself. ON THE TRINITY 1.1.1.

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TO SERVE SIN IS TO SERVE AN IDOL. ORIGEN: Unquestionably, at the time when the early Israelites fell into sin, religion languished. Judah made for themselves “statues in Jerusalem,” as well as in that part that came to be called Israel, “in Samaria.” But even now, if one considers the mass of sinners taken together, it would not be hard to say that everyone who, serving sin, makes a god out of what seems good to him—making a statue, casting the work of an artisan, setting it up in secret—is under the curse. It is precisely in the secret of the heart that we fabricate many idols when we sin. Therefore the Word admonishes us to do penance and to “cry out in lamentation over the statues” and the idols that are “in Jerusalem and in Samaria.” Truly, if we who desire to be of the church commit sin, we fabricate “statues in Jerusalem.” If those who are outside of the church sin, as heretics, they make “idols in Samaria.” Nevertheless God, in conformity with his goodness, calls all to repentance, saying, “Cry out in lamentation, statues, in Jerusalem and in Samaria, since as I have acted toward Samaria and the works of their hands, so also will I act toward Jerusalem and its idols.” The threat will be carried out toward those who are in the church just as it was with the Samaritans. HOMILIES ON ISAIAH 8.1.