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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?path=AS...=9325

xvi.28-29

Augustine was gifted with the intelligence to be able to comprehend Aristotle’s Categories without someone to teach him what it meant. Nevertheless, for all his wit and understanding, when he tried to apply this knowledge and understanding to God, he was stumped. Or rather, he thought he saw the nature of God and so was blind. Interesting that he attempted this categorization of God, since after all Plotinus had written that the Categories were, according to Chadwick, “inapplicable to the divine realm.”

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?path=AS...=9325

xvi.28-29

Augustine was gifted with the intelligence to be able to comprehend Aristotle’s Categories without someone to teach him what it meant. Nevertheless, for all his wit and understanding, when he tried to apply this knowledge and understanding to God, he was stumped. Or rather, he thought he saw the nature of God and so was blind. Interesting that he attempted this categorization of God, since after all Plotinus had written that the Categories were, according to Chadwick, “inapplicable to the divine realm.”