holy scriptures
01KJR8RE392KZXBVTQNPQM266CProperties
- _kg_layer
- 0
- characteristic
- tempered to senses of many
- characteristics
- lowly in access, lofty in recesses, veiled with mysteries
- content_type
- sacred texts
- delivered_by
- Moses
- description
- Venerable writings of the Spirit, studied by the narrator after the Platonists, which tamed his spirits, healed his wounds, and revealed the way to the beatific country, offering a deeper understanding of grace, sin, and redemption.
- effect_on_narrator
- tamed spirits, healed wounds
- guidance
- way to beatific country
- narrator's_initial_perception
- unworthy compared to Tully
- origin
- divine revelation
- subject_of_analysis
- creation account
Relationships
- seemed_unworthy_toNarrator
- description
- Initially, the narrator, influenced by his pride, found the Holy Scriptures to lack the 'stateliness' of Cicero's writings.
- source
- Sourcetext_chunk
- source_text
- they seemed to me unworthy to be compared to the stateliness of Tully
- extracted_fromSource
- extracted_at
- 2026-03-02T21:55:12.505Z
- source
- Sourcetext_chunk
- extracted_fromSource
- extracted_at
- 2026-03-02T21:55:24.513Z
- source
- Sourcetext_chunk
- referenced_byMoses
- context
- dispenses
- source
- Sourcetext_chunk
- source_text
- this Thy servant, the dispenser of this Scripture
- referenced_byGod
- context
- tempered
- source
- Sourcetext_chunk
- source_text
- the One God hath tempered the holy Scriptures to the senses of many
- referenced_byConfessions (Augustine's Work)
- context
- discusses_interpretations_of
- source
- Sourcetext_chunk
- extracted_fromSource
- extracted_at
- 2026-03-02T21:55:39.785Z
- source
- Sourcetext_chunk
- contain_truth_aboutDivine Grace
- description
- The narrator found that the Holy Scriptures presented truths, particularly about divine grace, that were missing in other philosophical works.
- source
- Sourcetext_chunk
- source_text
- whatsoever truth I had read in those other books, I found here amid the praise of Thy Grace
- extracted_fromSource
- extracted_at
- 2026-03-02T21:55:48.782Z
- source
- Sourcetext_chunk