![]() The words, in connection with the former, may be read, "what, if help is not with me, is wisdom also driven quite from me?" does it follow, because I am not able to help myself out of this afflicted and distressed condition in which I am, that I am deprived of my reason? or be it that I am such a weak impotent creature, and even distracted, as you take me to be, should I not then rather be pitied than insulted? so some connect the words following. fide societas, pietate propinquitas colitur, necesse est iste qui amicum, socium, adfinem fama. Orabo magistrum ut auxilium mihi det veni huc, magister, ut me adiuves, namque vereor ne me. ![]() Or "my defence", as some is it not in my power to defend myself against the calumnies and reproaches cast upon me? it is and, though one have no help in myself to bear my burdens, or extricate myself out of my difficulties, yet I have the testimony of a good conscience within me, that supports me and I have the strength and force of reason and argument on my side, to defend me against all objectors:Īnd is wisdom driven from me? either sound doctrine, the law, or, rather, the Gospel, the wisdom of God in a mystery, revealed in the words of the Holy One before mentioned or wisdom in the hidden part, the fear of God, which is wisdom, true grace in the heart, which, when once implanted, can never be driven out or natural reason and understanding, of which he was not bereaved for, though his body was thus sorely afflicted, he retained his reasoning and intellectual faculties. navigare necesse est, vivere non est necesse: to sail is necessary to live is not necessary: Attributed by Plutarch to Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, who, during a severe storm, commanded sailors to bring food from Africa to Rome. Ita quod mihi consuevit in ceteris causis esse adiumento.
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