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Chapter
LXXII.
In the next place, speaking as in the person of a
teacher of our doctrine, he expresses himself as follows:
“Wise men reject what we say, being led into error, and ensnared
by their wisdom.” In reply to which we say that, since
wisdom is the knowledge of divine and human things and of their causes,
or, as it is defined by the word of God, “the breath of the power
of God, and a pure influence flowing from the glory of the Almighty;
and the brightness of the everlasting light, and the unspotted mirror
of the power of God, and the image of His goodness,”3656
no one who was really wise would reject what
is said by a Christian acquainted with the principles of Christianity,
or would be led into error, or ensnared by it. For true wisdom
does not mislead, but ignorance does, while of existing things
knowledge alone is permanent, and the truth which is derived from
wisdom. But if, contrary to the definition of wisdom, you call
any one whatever who dogmatizes with sophistical opinions wise, we
answer that in conformity with what you call wisdom, such an one
rejects the words of God, being misled and ensnared by plausible
sophisms. And since, according to our doctrine, wisdom is not the
knowledge of evil, but the knowledge of evil, so to speak, is in those
who hold false opinions and who are deceived by them, I would therefore
in such persons term it ignorance rather than
wisdom.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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