Alberti Magni Opera Omnia, Vol. XXXVII

...even if the author did not feel this himself? St. Augustine, Confessions, Bk. XII, ch. 31 The same author, in the same place: "When another has said what he felt, which I think I say more religiously, why not rather both, if both are true? And if someone sees a third, and if a fourth, and if someone else sees something entirely different that is true in these words, why should it not be believed that all those things were seen, through whom the one God tempered the sacred letters for the minds of many who were to see true and different things? I certainly, without fear, pronounce from my heart, if I were writing something to the summit of authority, I would prefer to write so that my words would resonate with whatever truth anyone could grasp about these matters, rather than to put forward one true opinion so clearly to exclude others, the falsehood of which could not offend me." Augustine, in the same place: "Moses felt in these words, In the beginning Genesis 1:1, etc., and thought when he wrote them, whatever truth we have been able to find here, and whatever we have not been able to, or cannot yet, and yet can be found in them." Augustine in the book On Genesis, says that there is nothing empty in either spiritual or bodily things. The most blessed Virgin is surpassed by no one of the illustrious in anything. Hence in the book On Nature and Grace: "When it is a matter of sins, no question is made about her." St. Augustine, De natura et gratia, ch. 38 Anselm in the book On Sin and the Virginal Conception: "The most blessed Virgin shone with that purity, than which a greater cannot be understood under God." St. Anselm, De conceptu virginali, ch. 18 Bernard in his letter to the Canons of Lyon: "I think that a more copious blessing of sanctification descended upon her, which would not only sanctify her birth, but also guard her life immune from every sin thereafter, which is believed to have been granted to no one else among those born of women. It was fitting indeed for the queen of virgins to lead a life without any sin by a singular privilege of holiness, who, while she was bringing forth the redeemer of sin and death, would obtain the gift of life and justice for all. No good was lacking to her, of which a pure creature was capable in the state of the way." St. Bernard, Epistle 184

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