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The Consolation of Philosophy

BOOK V
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The explanation is that man's reasoning faculties are not adequate to the apprehension of the ways of God's foreknowledge.

If we could know, as He knows, all that is most perplexing in this problem would be made plain.

For knowledge depends not on the nature of the thing known, but on the faculty of the knower .-- CH.

V.Now, where our senses conflict with our reason, we defer the judgment of the lower faculty to the judgment of the higher.

Our present perplexity arises from our viewing God's foreknowledge from the standpoint of human reason.


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