Par.

 1 Pre|      contemplates God, and seeks to understand what he believes. To this
 2 Pre|  contemplation of God, and seeks to understand what he believes. In my
 3 1  |           believer does not seek to understand, that he may believe, but
 4 1  |             he believes that he may understand: for unless he believed
 5 1  |            he believed he would not understand.~Up now, slight man! flee,
 6 1  |            with that; but I long to understand in some degree your truth,
 7 1  |         loves. For I do not seek to understand that I may believe, but
 8 1  |           but I believe in order to understand. For this also I believe, --
 9 1  |            I believed, I should not understand.~ ~
10 2  |             it to be profitable, to understand that you are as we believe;
11 2  | understanding; although he does not understand it to exist.~For, it is
12 2  |       understanding, and another to understand that the object exists.
13 2  |  understanding, but be does not yet understand it to be, because he has
14 4  |            by your bounty, I now so understand by your illumination, that
15 4  |           should not be able not to understand this to be true.~ ~
16 9  |           For, though it is hard to understand how your compassion is not
17 9  |        whose light seek; help me to understand what I say.~Truly, then,
18 14 |           and truth? For how did it understand this, except by seeing light
19 14 |             and truth? Or, could it understand anything at all of you,