and its earthly habitation oppresses a mind teeming with thoughts.87 I was fully persuaded that your invisible reality is plainly to be understood through created things, your everlasting power also, and your divinity;88 for I had been trying to understand how it was possible for me to appreciate the beauty of material things in the sky or on earth, and why the power to make sound judgments about changeable matters was readily available to me, so that I could say, “This thing ought to be like this,