Original Douay–Rheims AnnotationsWisdom 13

They could not understand him, that is.

Philosophers discussing the nature of many creatures, saw that every creature proceeded of some other thing, & so there must needs be one beginning of all, ^◦ absolute of it-self, neither proceeding nor depending of another, nor a limited substance. As the thing that is a man, is not a beast; an oxe is not a horse &c. and telling what any thing is, we exclude thereby that it is not other things, but saying without addition, He Which Is, we shew the beginning of all, in no sort limited: and this is God. Whom some Philosophers, by such discourse found, & knew in general, & sometimes confessed, but did not honour him as God, and therefore were inexcusable, as S. Paul concludeth against them. Rom. 1.

• ◦ God is the beginning of all things, absolute and independing.