That which is far off, and exceedingly deep, who can find it out?
All Commentaries on Ecclesiastes 7:24 Go To Ecclesiastes 7
Basil the Great
AD 379
Even if all minds, in fact, should combine their researches and all tongues would concur in their utterance, never, as I have said, could anyone achieve a worthy result in this matter. Solomon, the wisest of all, presents this thought clearly to us when he says, “I have said: I will be wise; and it departed farther from me”; not that it really fled but because wisdom appears unattainable particularly to those to whom knowledge has been given in an exceptionally high degree by the grace of God. .
