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 1 Text|       AGAINST THE PLATONISTS. ~ ~KNOW, O my beloved, that in (?)
 2 Text| everything it is right for us to know the (just) Measure of everything.
 3 Text|       arrogance. For whenever we know how to approach anything
 4 Text|   measure. ~But that thou mayest know how great is the victory
 5 Text|         reprove him who does not know how to deal with it, investigation
 6 Text|        such matters as we do not know ? For whoever comes forward
 7 Text|      confessing that he does not know ; but whoever comes forward
 8 Text|     being asked) why he does not know something which he could
 9 Text|     something which he could not know] [l.10]. But if he says '
10 Text|         l.10]. But if he says 'I know,' whereas it is known that
11 Text|          is known that he cannot know it, [then his arrogance
12 Text|       because though he does not know] he is unwilling to be humble [
13 Text|      their meaning) no one [can] know . . . ~*         *         *         *         *         *         *  ~
14 Text|        because he is not able to know what he [p. 6. l.9] says. ~
15 Text|          one confesses 'I do not know.' For this is their great
16 Text|  knowledge that when they do not know a thing they confess that
17 Text|         confess that they do not know it. For that same knowledge
18 Text|  something else that he does not know it, he gains a victory as
19 Text|        in that he did not really know the teaching of Plato ;
20 Text|     round. ~But that thou mayest know that the Bardesanists have
21 Text|         are, so that thou mayest know that they also are things
22 Text|       suffice that thou shouldst know all of them by means of
23 Text|          before a man is born we know the fashion of his length
24 Text|         or Space ? Nor dost thou know whether they be black or
25 Text|       thou hast sung or called I know not  whether thy voice is
26 Text|         unless thou hast heard I know not whether thy hearing
27 Text|       tongue and thy voice I can know by means of writings whether
28 Text|  mentioned assist our weakness. ~Know moreover that Dark and Light
29 Text|         other) black substances, know that also upon them when