{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/102/1020708.htm","path":"chr/ecf/102/1020708.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/102/1020708.htm","text":"Chapter 12.\u2014In What Sense the Wisdom of God Came to Us.\nAnd though He is everywhere present to the inner eye when it is sound and clear, He condescended to make Himself manifest to the outward eye of those whose inward sight is weak and dim. \u201cFor after that, in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.\u201d 1725\n12. Not then in the sense of traversing space, but because He appeared to mortal men in the form of mortal flesh, He is said to have come to us. For He came to a place where He had always been, seeing that \u201cHe was in the world, and the world was made by Him.\u201d But, because men, who in their eagerness to enjoy the creature instead of the Creator had grown into the likeness of this world, and are therefore most appropriately named \u201cthe world,\u201d did not recognize Him, therefore the evangelist says, \u201cand the world knew Him not.\u201d 1726 Thus, in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom knew not God. Why then did He come, seeing that He was already here, except that it pleased God through the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe?","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. II: On Christian Doc...","type":"page"}