LIBRO I.

...and hearing, they may understand less. And David, speaking with God, says: Open my eyes, and I will consider your wonders A citation of Psalm 119:18.. Note that he did not say he ought to reveal them, but to consider or meditate upon them. I could bring forth infinite other reasons for this point, but because they all lead to the same conclusion, I will set them aside.

However, I will not, for this reason, refrain from manifesting to Your Lordship S.V. stands for Signoria Vostra, a formal title of address for the high-ranking person the Friar is addressing. everything that my mind suggests to me. I judge that I can do so without any mark of transgression against the arguments cited above. For, just as a single season does not last forever, so likewise statutes and laws—not only worldly ones, but divine ones too—do not always remain the same.

We see in the government of a city that in different times different statutes are changed; because, according to the rule of the canonists experts in Church law: Those things which emerge anew, require new assistance original: "Quæ de nouo emergunt, de nouo indigent auxilio." This is a legal maxim suggesting that as new circumstances arise, new remedies or laws must be provided.. And Solomon says that it is a wise thing to change one's counsel. I say the same regarding divine polity The manner in which God governs the world and his people.. Thus, the ceremonies and legal requirements of the Old Testament have ceased, leaving only the moral laws, which are according to the dictates of nature.

Therefore, because it was to be Christ himself who would break the veil of the temple A reference to the curtain in the Jewish Temple that tore upon Christ's death (Matthew 27:51), symbolizing that the "secrets" of God were now accessible to all through Him. and reveal the divine secrets, for this reason the Old Testament praises taciturnity the habit of remaining silent and silence: