for this view they frequently cited from the Septuagint, ‘If you will not believe, you will not understand’, or ‘be established.’27 They were thereby making the point that it is through faith that our minds are put in direct touch with reality independent of ourselves, for it is through faith that our minds assent to the inherent intelligibility of things, yield to their self-evidencing power, and are adapted to know them in their own nature (κατὰ φύσιν).28 It is upon that kind of basic contact