either to form its figures of speech or to make enigmatic sayings. Hence, they boast in a pernicious and futile manner, who shut themselves off from the truth by that third kind of error, in their predicating to God what can be found neither in Him nor in any creature. For, from the things which are found in the creature, the divine Scripture is wont to prepare enticements, as it were, for children. Its purpose is to arouse the affections of the weak, so that by means of them, as though they were