“"Counsel and a tongue and eyes and ears and a heart He gave them for thinking, and He filled them with the discipline of understanding." He gives us to understand that the human soul has three operations, by which it turns itself upon its own body, upon itself, and toward divine things. That this understanding is part…”
Bonaventure, 13th c. — Collationes de Septem Donis, Collation 8
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5They received the use of the five operations of the Lord, and in the sixth place he imparted them understanding, and in the seventh speech, an interpreter of the cogitations thereof.
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In context
3He endued them with strength by themselves, and made them according to his image,
4And put the fear of man upon all flesh, and gave him dominion over beasts and fowls.
— Sirach 17:5 —
6Counsel, and a tongue, and eyes, ears, and a heart, gave he them to understand.
7Withal he filled them with the knowledge of understanding, and shewed them good and evil.