11:33–36 Eastern Orthodoxy has always taught that worship begins where theology ends. Where the legs of reason grow weary, the heart may yet soar on wings like eagles. Verse 33 marks the frontier between theological argumentation and sublime worship. Paul’s long and difficult philosophy of history now yields to a doxology to God’s wisdom. A lesser soul than Paul, having plunged into the labyrinth of divine sovereignty and human sin, might, like Job, have emerged shaking his head in despair. Not so the apostle. The severity of the problem magnifies the greatness of God. Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! (v. 33). What the mind cannot know, the heart, as Pascal recognized, may know by other reasons. The limits of reason lead not to defeat and despair but to the t…