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  1 Pre|          seeks to understand what he believes. To this work he
  2 Pre|         he believes. To this work he had given this title: Faith
  3 Pre|      Faith Seeking Understanding. He finally named it Proslogium, --
  4 Pre|         himself, matters of which he is ignorant; considering
  5 Pre|          seeks to understand what he believes. In my judgment,
  6 1  |         the blessedness for which he was made, and found the
  7 1  |        found the misery for which he was not made. He did not
  8 1  |        for which he was not made. He did not keep this good when
  9 1  |           not keep this good when he could keep it easily. Without
 10 1  |         him; nor find him, unless he reveals himself. God created
 11 1  |    created man in his image, that he might be mindful of him,
 12 1  |          seek to understand, that he may believe, but he believes
 13 1  |          that he may believe, but he believes that he may understand:
 14 1  |     believe, but he believes that he may understand: for unless
 15 1  |        may understand: for unless he believed he would not understand.~
 16 1  |            for unless he believed he would not understand.~Up
 17 1  |          out afar from your face? He pants to see you, and your
 18 1  |         face is too far from him. He longs to come to you, and
 19 1  |   dwelling-place is inaccessible. He is eager to find you, and
 20 1  |         and knows not your place. He desires to seek you, and
 21 1  |         wretched lot of man, when he has lost that for which
 22 1  |           has lost that for which he was made! O hard and terrible
 23 1  |     terrible fate! Alas, what has he lost, and what has he found?
 24 1  |         has he lost, and what has he found? What has departed,
 25 1  |       departed, and what remains? He has lost the blessedness
 26 1  |         the blessedness for which he was made, and has found
 27 1  |        found the misery for which he was not made. That has departed
 28 1  |        bread of angels, for which he hungers now; he eateth now
 29 1  |         for which he hungers now; he eateth now the bread of
 30 1  |        bread of sorrows, of which he knew not then. Alas! for
 31 1  | lamentation of the sons of Hades! He choked with satiety, we
 32 1  |     satiety, we sigh with hunger. He abounded, we beg. He possessed
 33 1  |      hunger. He abounded, we beg. He possessed in happiness,
 34 1  |          we remain empty.~Why did he not keep for us, when he
 35 1  |          he not keep for us, when he could so easily, that whose
 36 1  |          feel so heavily? Why did he shut us away from the light,
 37 1  |   darkness? With what purpose did he rob us of life, and inflict
 38 2  |        rate, this very fool, when he hears of this being of which
 39 2  |           what be hears, and what he understands is in his understanding;
 40 2  |           understanding; although he does not understand it to
 41 2  |           first conceives of what he will afterwards perform,
 42 2  |          will afterwards perform, he has it in his understanding,
 43 2  |      understand it to be, because he has not yet performed it.
 44 2  |           performed it. But after he has made the painting, be
 45 2  |         in his understanding, and he understands that it exists,
 46 2  |           that it exists, because he has made it.~Hence, even
 47 2  |           be conceived. For, when he hears of this, he understands
 48 2  |            when he hears of this, he understands it. And whatever
 49 3  |          of all? Why, except that he is dull and a fool?~ ~
 50 4  |          not to exist; in reality he cannot.~BUT how has the
 51 4  |       fool said in his heart what he could not conceive; or how
 52 4  |       conceive; or how is it that he could not conceive what
 53 4  |           could not conceive what he said in his heart? since
 54 4  |        really, nay, since really, he both conceived, because
 55 4  |           both conceived, because he said in his heart; and did
 56 4  |         say in his heart, because he could not conceive; there
 57 4  |          does not exist; although he says these words in his
 58 4  |          cannot be conceived. And he who thoroughly understands
 59 4  |          non-existent. Therefore, he who understands that God
 60 4  |      exists, cannot conceive that he does not exist.~I thank
 61 5  |         to be than not to be; and he, as the only self-existent
 62 6  |    sensible (sensibilis) although he is not a body. --God is
 63 6  |          to be these than not be. He who in any way knows, is
 64 6  |          sake of cognition, --for he who feels obtains knowledge
 65 7  |                  CHAPTER VII.~How he is omnipotent, although
 66 7  |          are many things of which he is not capable. --To be
 67 7  |        power, but impotence. For, he who is capable of these
 68 7  |         for his good, and of what he ought not to do; and the
 69 7  |          the more capable of them he is, the more power have
 70 7  |     against him; and the less has he himself against these.~He,
 71 7  |         he himself against these.~He, then, who is thus capable
 72 7  |            but by impotence. For, he is not said to be able because
 73 7  |           said to be able because he is able of himself, but
 74 7  |         not for his good, or what he ought not to do, impotence
 75 7  |         word power. For, the more he possesses this power, the
 76 7  |         and the more powerless is he against them.~Therefore,
 77 8  |                 CHAPTER VIII.~How he is compassionate and passionless.
 78 8  |         of his own being, because he does not experience the
 79 9  |         justly pities the wicked. He is better who is good to
 80 9  |     righteous and the wicked than he who is good to the righteous
 81 9  |  supremely compassionate, because he is supremely just. He saves
 82 9  |     because he is supremely just. He saves the just, because
 83 9  |           justice goes with them; he frees sinners by the authority
 84 9  |         If God ought not to pity, he pities unjustly. But this
 85 9  |         to any wicked being. For, he who is good, both to the
 86 9  |        the wicked, is better than he who is good to the wicked
 87 9  |          to the wicked alone; and he who is good to the wicked,
 88 9  |      sparing them, is better than he who is good by punishing
 89 10 |                    CHAPTER X.~How he justly punishes and justly
 90 10 |         to his own nature because he does what is consistent
 91 10 | consistent with his goodness; but he is not just, according to
 92 10 |  according to our nature, because he does not inflict the punishment
 93 11 |    comprehend why, of the wicked, he saves these rather than
 94 11 |           evils to the evil. For, he who requites both good and
 95 11 |         deserts is more just than he who so requites the good
 96 12 |          is the very life whereby he lives; and so of other like
 97 13 |                 CHAPTER XIII.~How he alone is uncircumscribed
 98 13 |         and time contain God. But he is himself everywhere and
 99 13 |    himself everywhere and always. He alone not only does not
100 14 |        not found your God, how is he this being which you have
101 15 |                       CHAPTER XV.~He is greater than can be conceived. ~
102 16 |      unapproachable light wherein he dwells. ~TRULY, O Lord,
103 19 |                      CHAPTER XIX.~He does not exist in place
104 20 |                       CHAPTER XX.~He exists before all things
105 22 |                     CHAPTER XXII.~He alone is what he is and
106 22 |    CHAPTER XXII.~He alone is what he is and who be is. --All
107 22 |         what you are; and you are he who you are. For, what is
108 22 |          and forever. And you are he who you are, properly and
109 22 |        and need none; and you are he whom all things need for
110 23 | accomplished in the Word by which he expresses himself. Neither
111 23 |        love yourself and him, and he, you and himself, to the
112 25 |        him? At any rate, whatever he shall wish shall be his,
113 25 |        shall be his, and whatever he shall not wish shall not
114 25 |         another, through him, and he, himself and them, through
115 25 |        will have power to do what he wills, through himself,
116 25 |           will anything else than he, he shall will whatever
117 25 |       will anything else than he, he shall will whatever they
118 25 |      whatever they will; and what he shall will cannot fail to
119 25 |           loves another so far as he rejoices in the other's
120 25 |           the others with him; so he will rejoice beyond reckoning