Thomas Aquinas, on Job 36:25

“All men see him, every one beholdeth afar off.”

“No matter how some wise men may be, they cannot arrive at knowing and explaining God's essence. But all the thought of man and his discourse about God is through his works. For no one lacks wisdom to such an extent that he does not perceive some of the divine works. Again, no one is so wise that his knowledge is not completely surpassed by the excellence of divine clarity, and so he says, "each one beholds from afar," that is, human knowledge is very far from the perfect comprehension of the divine essence, both because man can only know him through his works, which are an infinite distance from the excellence of his essence, and because man does not even know his works perfectly.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.