Revelation of Divine Majesty

...to be read in the first chapter of the letter to the Romans: For what is known of God is manifest to the heathens, for God has revealed it to them, so that God's invisible essence, that is, His eternal omnipotence and divinity, may be seen. For one must notice it in the works He does, in the world He has created. Thus also (Psalm 33) the earth is full of the goodness of the Lord. Psalm 19: The heavens tell the glory of God, and the firmament proclaims the work of His hands. Therefore, this prophet says elsewhere, "I meditate on the works of your hands" original: "meditator in operibus manuum tuarum". Where Solomon also boasts of this wisdom, he places the complete knowledge of all God's creatures within it. Therefore, the knowledge of the creatures is not excluded from the right and true eternal wisdom, but is necessarily included, as can be seen at length in the seventh chapter of the Book of Wisdom by Solomon.

Although much, and indeed everything, depends on wisdom and especially on its first part: since eternal life consists in us knowing the Father, the true God, and Jesus Christ whom He has sent. Therefore, no wise man should boast of his wisdom, no rich man of his riches, nor any strong man of his strength. Instead, whoever wants to boast should boast that he knows God. Yet daily experience unfortunately shows enough that instead of this wisdom, folly reigns; instead of light, darkness; instead of truth, lies; and instead of the true God, idols, images, and dead saints are honored, despite God having let a light rise again for us in Germany through His grace. Therefore the Lord complains in Jeremiah, Chapter 2: What fault did your fathers find in Me, that they depart from Me and cling to useless gods from whom they obtain nothing? I brought you into a good land to eat its fruits and goods, and when you entered, you defiled my land...

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