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Fünfzehn Bücher über die Dreieinigkeit

VIERZEHNTES BUCH.

Das Bild Gottes wird im menschlichen Geiste verwirklicht nicht so sehr durch die Erinnerung, Schau und Liebe eines vergänglichen Gegenstandes oder des Geistes selbst als vielmehr durch die Fähigkeit, sich Gottes zu erinnern, ihn zu schauen und zu lieben.

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The Fifteen Books of Aurelius Augustinus, Bishop of Hippo, on the Trinity

Book XIV.

The true wisdom of man is treated of; and it is shown that the image of God, which man is in respect to his mind, is not placed properly in transitory things, as in memory, understanding, and love, whether of faith itself as existing in time, or even of the mind as busied with itself, but in things that are permanent; and that this wisdom is then perfected, when the mind is renewed in the knowledge of God, according to the image of Him who created man after His own Image, and thus attains to wisdom, wherein that which is contemplated is eternal.