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5 Nov 2020

Knowledge And Heaven

Ἄρτι γινώσκω ἐκ μέρους, ἔφη ὁ ἱερὸς Ἀπόστολος, γινώσκων ὅτι τὸ Θεῖον  κἀνταῦθα τὴν περιουσίαν τῆς οἰκείας σοφίας ἔδειξεν ἂν, εἰ τὸ δεξόμενον ἰκανὸν ἧν δέξασθαι τὴν νυνὶ μὲν ἀχωρητον γνῶσιν, χωρηθησομένην δὲ κατὰ τὸ ἐνδεχόμενον ἐν τῷ μέλλοντι αἰῶνι.

Ἅγιος Ἰσίδωρος Του Πηλουσιώτου, Βιβίον Β', Ἐπιστολὴ ΝΛ', Αλφειῳ Ὑποδιακονῳ

Source:  Migne PG 78.376a-b
'Now we know in part,' 1 says the holy Apostle, knowing that the Divine abundance of the house of wisdom which he revealed was so, compared to the whole knowledge he could have revealed if he had received it, but which shall fill us in the age to come according to the ability to receive it.

Saint Isidore of Pelusium, Book 2, Letter 56, To Alphius the Subdeacon


1 1 Cor 13.9

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