Part 7 (1/2)

Hence, too, the prodigal son in the Gospel is blamed because he would fain have filled his belly with the husks (_f_) which the swine did eat

Hence, too, Origen understands by the flies and frogs hich the Egyptians were sarrulousness of the dialecticians and their sophistical arguathered that knowledge of profane literature is not to be sought after by churchmen

But, on the other hand[N] one reads that Moses and Daniel were learned in all the wisdoyptians and Chaldeans

One reads also that God ordered the sons of Israel to spoil (_g_) the Egyptians of their gold and silver; the moral interpretation of this teaches that should we find in the poets either the gold of wisdom or the silver of eloquence, we should turn it to the profit of useful learning In Leviticus also we are ordered to

(_d_) Such a one is rejected by the evidence, as VI quaest I qui crimen Also, he cannot be a bishop As XLVIII dist -- necesse Nay he is called a dog rather than a bishop As II quaest VII qui nee John

(_e_) Because he read them for pleasure not for instruction, as de conse dist V non mediocriter

(_f_) That is, with profane wisdo_) XIIII quaest V dixit[P]

offer up to God the first fruits of honey, that is, the sweetness of huifts, by which some would have us understand the three parts _(h)_ of philosophy

[The reader will note that the two paragraphs following belong uraph above,--”From all which instances,” etc]

Finally in his exposition of the Psalms, Cassiodorus bears witness that all the splendor of rhetorical eloquence, all the melody of poetic speech, whatever variety there in in divine Scriptures

Hence also A the Epistle to the Colossians: The sue or of earthly creation is in Him who is their Fountain-head and Author, so that he who knows Hioodness and wisdoht elsewhere, in Him is found in its completeness In Daniel and Solomon he shows that He is for infidels the source of all their eloquence and wisdom Infidels do not so think, because they do not, in the Gospels and the prophets, read about astrology and other such like things, which are of slight _(i)_ worth because they avail not for salvation, but lead to error; and whoever devotes himself to these has no care for his soul; while he who knows Christ finds a treasure house of wisdoe, because he knows that which is of avail

Hence Bede says in the Book of Kings:

=The clergy should not be prevented fro profane literature[Q]=

He harms the mental acumen of readers, and causes it to wane, who thinks that they should in every way be prevented fros _(k)_ are found in them it is lawful to adopt as one's own Otherwise Moses and Daniel would not have been allowed to becoyptians and

(_h_) Ie Ethics, natural philosophy, rational philosophy

(_i_) Coues that the useful is not vitiated by the useless as XVII

q IV questi s dist IX si ad scripturas Contra Joan

Chaldeans, whose superstitions and wantonness nevertheless they shuddered at And the teacher _(l)_ of the gentiles himself would not have introduced _(s

[On this Gratian cos] forbidden to be read which, it

(_l_) For we read that when Paul had come to Athens he saw an altar of the Unknown God on which it ritten: ”This is an altar of[S] the Unknown God in e live and ” And with this inscription the Apostle began his exhortation andof this inscription,--continuing about our God and saying: ”Whom you pronounce Unknown, Him declare I unto you and worshi+p” Then Dionysius,[T] the Areopagite, seeing a blind ive sight to that blind man I will believe you” Immediately, when the naht and Dionysius believed

(_ In the Epistle of Paul to titus,[U] the quotation from Epimenides the poet: ”The Cretians are always liars, evil beasts, slow bellies” I quaest, i dominus declaravit

Also he introduced in the first Epistle to the Corinthians this froood manners” XXVIII