AUGUSTINE.--Enarr. in Psalm, lxxxv. 8: "God is ineffable; we more easily say what He is not than what He is." Serm, cccxli.: "I call God just, because in human words I find nothing better; for He is beyond justice.... What then is worthily said of God? Some one, perhaps, may reply and say, _that He is just._ But another, with better understanding, may say that even this word is surpassed by His excellence, and that even this is said of Him unworthily, though it be said fittingly according to human capacity." CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA.--_In Joann. Evang_., 1. ii., c. 5: "For those things which are spoken concerning it [the Divine Nature] are not spoken as they are in very truth, but as the tongue of man can interpret, and as man can hear; for he who sees in an enigma also speaks in an enigma." DAMASCENUS.--_De Fide Orthod_., i. 4: "That God is, is manifest; but what He is in His essence and nature is utterly incomprehensible and unknown." AQUINAS.--_Summa_, pars. i., qu. xiii., art. 1: "We cannot so name God that the name which denotes Him shall express the Divine Essence as it is, in the same way as the name _man_ expresses in its signification the essence of man as it is." _Ibid._, art. 5: "When the name _wise_ is said of a man, it in a manner describes and comprehends the thing signified: not so, however, when it is said of God; but it leaves the thing signified as uncomprehended and exceeding the signification of the name. Whence it is evident that this name _wise_ is not said in the same manner of God and of man. The same is the case with other names; whence no name can be predicated univocally of God and of creatures; yet they are not predicated merely equivocally.... We must say, then, that such names are said of God and of creatures according to analogy, that is, proportion." HOOKER.--_Ecc. Pol._, I., ii. 2.--"Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man to wade far into the doings of the Most High; whom although to know be life, and joy to make mention of His name, yet our soundest knowledge is to know that we know Him not as indeed He is, neither can know Him." USHER.--_Body of Divinity_, p. 45, Ed. 1645: "Neither is it [the wisdom of God] communicated to any creature, neither can be; for it is unconceivable, as the very essence of God Himself is unconceivable, and unspeakable as it is."