“We must think that in any case heretics are carnal and earthly and therefore incapable of spiritual things. The apostle says of them, "The animal person, however, does not understand the things of the Spirit of God. They are foolishness to him, and he is not able to understand them, because they can be judged only thr…”
Fulgentius of Ruspe, 6th c. — BOOK TO VICTOR AGAINST THE SERMON OF FASTIDIOSUS THE ARIAN 18:2-3
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17And thy counsel who hath known, except thou give wisdom, and send thy Holy Spirit from above?
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15For the corruptible body presseth down the soul, and the earthy tabernacle weigheth down the mind that museth upon many things.
16And hardly do we guess aright at things that are upon earth, and with labour do we find the things that are before us: but the things that are in heaven who hath searched out?
— Wisdom of Solomon 9:17 —
18For so the ways of them which lived on the earth were reformed, and men were taught the things that are pleasing unto thee, and were saved through wisdom.