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| Chapter IX. The answer on the understanding of one who asks rightly.
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Chapter IX.
The answer on the understanding of one who asks
rightly.
Daniel: It belongs to the
understanding to discern the distinctions and the drift of questions;
and it is a main part of knowledge to understand how ignorant you are.
Wherefore it is said that “if a fool asks questions, it will be
accounted wisdom,”1294
because,
although one who asks questions is ignorant of the answer to the
question raised, yet as he wisely asks, and learns what he does not
know, this very fact will be counted as wisdom in him, because he
wisely discovers what he was ignorant of. According then to this
division of yours, it seems that in this passage the Apostle mentions
three things, the lust of the flesh against the spirit, and of the
spirit against the flesh, the mutual struggle of which against each
other appears to have this as its cause and reason; viz.,
“that,” says he, “we should not do what we
would.” There remains then a fourth case, which you have
overlooked; viz., that we should do what we would not. Now then, we
must first discover the meaning of those two desires, i.e., of the
flesh and spirit, and so next learn to discuss our free will, which is
placed between the two, and then lastly in the same way we can see what
cannot belong to our free will.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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