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Augustine: Scripture makes use of bodily things to speak of God ("under the shadow of Thy wings," etc.). It also uses human things ("I am jealous," "I regret making man," etc.). It uses these as enticements to draw our understanding upward. #AugDeTrin
But Scripture "rarely mentions things properly ascribed to God peculiarly, that is, things not found in any creature." Augustine means this as a rebuke to cocky Platonists who boast of thinking rightly about God because they philosophize about transcendence. #AugDeTrin
When they come up w/elaborate accounts of That Which Transcends Creatures, accounts not guided by revelation, they are even more wrong than somebody who thinks God is a rock or a soul. "Not only is God not like that," says Augustine, "nothing is like that." #AugDeTrin
