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PROSLOGIUM, 53 compare my understanding with that; but I long to understand in some degree thy truth, which my heart believes and loves. For I do not seek to understand that I may believe, but I believe in order to under- stand. For this also I believe, that unless I be: friezed, I should not understand. ..CHAPTER II. Truly there is a God, although the fool bath said in his heart, There is no God. AND SO, Lord, do thou, who dost give understand- ing to faith, give me, so far as thou knowest it to be prontable, to understand that thou art as we believe; and that thou art that which we believe. And, in- deed, we believe that thou art a being than which nothing greater can be conceived. Or is there no such nature, since the fool hath said in his heart, there is no God? (Psalms xiv. 1). But, at any rate, this very fool, when he hears of this being of which I speak-a being than which nothing greater can be conceived understands what he hears, and what he understands is in his understanding; although he does not understand it to exist. For is one thing for an object to be in the un- derstanding, and another to understand that the ob- jet existe When a painter first conceives of what he will afterwards perform, he has it in his under- standing, but he does not yet understand it to be, be. cause he has not yet performed it. But after he has made the painting, he both has it in his understand- ing, and he understands that it exists, because he has made it.

PROSLOGIUM, 53 compare my understanding with that; but I long to understand in some degree thy truth, which my heart believes and loves. For I do not seek to understand that I may believe, but I believe in order to under- stand. For this also I believe, that unless I be: friezed, I should not understand. ..CHAPTER II. Truly there is a God, although the fool bath said in his heart, There is no God. AND SO, Lord, do thou, who dost give understand- ing to faith, give me, so far as thou knowest it to be prontable, to understand that thou art as we believe; and that thou art that which we believe. And, in- deed, we believe that thou art a being than which nothing greater can be conceived. Or is there no such nature, since the fool hath said in his heart, there is no God? (Psalms xiv. 1). But, at any rate, this very fool, when he hears of this being of which I speak-a being than which nothing greater can be conceived understands what he hears, and what he understands is in his understanding; although he does not understand it to exist. For is one thing for an object to be in the un- derstanding, and another to understand that the ob- jet existe When a painter first conceives of what he will afterwards perform, he has it in his under- standing, but he does not yet understand it to be, be. cause he has not yet performed it. But after he has made the painting, he both has it in his understand- ing, and he understands that it exists, because he has made it.

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PROSLOGIUM, 53 compare my understanding with that; but I long to understand in some degree thy truth, which my heart believes and loves. For I do not seek to understand that I may believe, but I believe in order to under- stand. For this also I believe, that unless I be: friezed, I should not understand. ..CHAPTER II. Truly there is a God, although the fool bath said in his heart, There is no God. AND SO, Lord, do thou, who dost give understand- ing to faith, give me, so far as thou knowest it to be prontable, to understand that thou art as we believe; and that thou art that which we believe. And, in- deed, we believe that thou art a being than which nothing greater can be conceived. Or is there no such nature, since the fool hath said in his heart, there is no God? (Psalms xiv. 1). But, at any rate, this very fool, when he hears of this being of which I speak-a being than which nothing greater can be conceived understands what he hears, and what he understands is in his understanding; although he does not understand it to exist. For is one thing for an object to be in the un- derstanding, and another to understand that the ob- jet existe When a painter first conceives of what he will afterwards perform, he has it in his under- standing, but he does not yet understand it to be, be. cause he has not yet performed it. But after he has made the painting, he both has it in his understand- ing, and he understands that it exists, because he has made it.
Transcribed Image Text:PROSLOGIUM, 53 compare my understanding with that; but I long to understand in some degree thy truth, which my heart believes and loves. For I do not seek to understand that I may believe, but I believe in order to under- stand. For this also I believe, that unless I be: friezed, I should not understand. ..CHAPTER II. Truly there is a God, although the fool bath said in his heart, There is no God. AND SO, Lord, do thou, who dost give understand- ing to faith, give me, so far as thou knowest it to be prontable, to understand that thou art as we believe; and that thou art that which we believe. And, in- deed, we believe that thou art a being than which nothing greater can be conceived. Or is there no such nature, since the fool hath said in his heart, there is no God? (Psalms xiv. 1). But, at any rate, this very fool, when he hears of this being of which I speak-a being than which nothing greater can be conceived understands what he hears, and what he understands is in his understanding; although he does not understand it to exist. For is one thing for an object to be in the un- derstanding, and another to understand that the ob- jet existe When a painter first conceives of what he will afterwards perform, he has it in his under- standing, but he does not yet understand it to be, be. cause he has not yet performed it. But after he has made the painting, he both has it in his understand- ing, and he understands that it exists, because he has made it.
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