Book 14

Summary

Outline

1. “Wisdom” may be taken to designate the Second Person of the Trinity, or both knowledge of the temporal and the eternal, or simply knowledge of the eternal. (1.1–3)

2. The memory, sight, and love of our faith is already an image of God. (2.4)

3. We can distinguish various lesser human trinities. (3.5–4.6)

4. We may question whether the mind of an infant is present to itself as an adult mind is. (5.7)

5. Let us return to the trinity of memory, understanding, and will, as discussed in Book 10. (6.8)

6. We know things we are not, at the time, thinking of. (7.9)

7. The mind s memory, understanding, and love of itself constitute an image of God. (8.11)

8. The three virtues, prudence, courage, and temperance, united in justice, constitute a trinity. (9.12)

9. Memory, understanding, and foresight, constitute a trinity. (10.13–11.14)

10. Remembering, understanding, and loving God constitute an image of God. (12.15–14.20)

11. God is eternal and present everywhere as a whole. (15.21)

12. We are exhorted to a life of faith. (16.22–19.26)

Chapter 1

We are now to treat of Wisdom, not that of God which is undoubtedly God – for His only-begotten Son is called the Wisdom of God [cf. Ecclesiasticus 24:5; 1 Corinthians 1:24] but we shall speak about the wisdom of man, yet of true wisdom which is according to God, and is the true and principal worship of Him; in Greek it is called by one word theosébia.