Every human is made foolish from knowledge
“Every human has been made foolish from knowledge.” If every human has been made foolish from knowledge, and Paul is a human, Paul has been made foolish from knowledge—knowing in part and made foolish from knowledge—seeing “through a mirror” in a many-thousandth part and, if one may say so, seeing and grasping the things in an infinite-thousandth part.
And from the opposite you will understand “every human has been made foolish from knowledge.” There are sins of Jerusalem; there are sins of Sodom. Compare the lesser transgressions: the righteousness of Sodom appears relative to Jerusalem’s injustices, as he says: “Sodom has been justified from you.”
Thus, just as Sodom’s sins are not righteousness, but righteousness emerges only toward the greater injustice, so also Paul’s knowledge, measured against the knowledge among the heavens, is shown as folly before the perfect knowledge.
Therefore the saying holds: “Every human has been made foolish from knowledge.” I think the Preacher also saw this when he said: “I said, I will become wise,” and it stood far from him—depth: who will find it?
Greek
«Ἐμωράνθη πᾶς ἄνθρωπος ἀπὸ γνώσεως((. εἰ πᾶς ἄνθρωπος ἐμωράνθη ἀπὸ γνώσεως, καὶ Παῦλός ἐστιν ἄνθρωπος, Παῦλος ἐμωράνθη ἀπὸ γνώσεως >ἐκ μέρους γινώσκων καὶ ἐκ μέρους ἐμωράνθη ἀπὸ γνώσεως >δἰ ἐσόπτρου βλέπων< ἐν πολλοστημόριον καί, εἰ ἔστιν εἰπεῖν, ἀπειροστημόριον βλέπων καὶ καταλαμβάνων τῶν πραγμάτων. ἐκ τοῦ ἐναντίου δὲ νοήσεις τὸ «ἐμωράνθη πᾶς ἄνθρωπος ἀπὸ γνώσεως. ἔστιν ἁμαρτήματα τῆς Ιερουσαλήμ, ἁμαρτήματα καὶ Σοδόμων, ἀλλὰ συφκρίσει τῶν χειρόνων ἁμαρτημάτων τῆς Ἱερουσαλὴμ δικαιοσύνη ἐστὶν τὰ Σοδόμων ἁμαρτή- ματα· «ἐδικαιώθη« γάρ φησι «Σόδομα ἐκ σοῦ.
ὥσπερ οὐν οὐχὶ δικαιοσύνη τὰ Σοδόμων ἁμαρτήματα ἀλλὰ ἀλλὰ ὡς πρὸς τὴν πλείονα δὲ ἀδικίαν δικαιοσύνη ἐστίν, οὕτως ἐκ τοῦ τοῦ γνῶσις, ἡ Παύλῳ γνῶσις, ὡς πρὸς τὴν γνῶσιν ἐκείνην τὴν οὖσαν έν τοῖς οὐρα- νοῖς, ὡς πρὸς τὴν τελείαν γνῶσιν μωρία ἐστίν. διὰ τοῦτο «ἐμωράνθη πᾶς ἄνθρωπος ἀπὸ γνώσεως. τοιοῦτόν τι οἶμαι καταλαμβάνων ὁ Ἐκκλησιαστὴς ἔλεγεν. «εἶπα. σοφισθήσομαι. καὶ αὐτὴ ἐμακρύνθη ἀπ ἐμοῦ μακρὰν ὑπὲρ ὅ ἠν, καὶ βαθὺ βάθος, τίς εὑρήσει αὐτό«;