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Gregory the Great was known as an intellectual, administrative, and spiritual giant. While providing for the temporal needs of the Church during his pontificate (590–604), he wrote the Dialogues to take care of the eternal welfare of his people. In four books, the Dialogues honors the memory of the saints of Italy through the first three, and in the fourth, discusses the immortality of the human...

now as I was speaking. In addressing the Lord, David the Prophet declares, ‘With my lips I have pronounced all the judgments of thy mouth.’42 Surely it is a greater achievement to express one’s knowledge than merely to possess it. How is it, then, that St. Paul calls the judgments of God inscrutable, whereas David says he knows them all and has even pronounced them with his lips? GREGORY I already gave a brief reply to both of these objections when I told you that holy men know God’s thoughts in
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