The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil According to the Holy Scriptures

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faithfully, whatever you build upon it in Theology will collapse.
And that City of God will collapse, whose foundations are in the holy mountains and in the scriptures of the princes who were in it Psalm 87:1. The Author of which Scriptures is not man, but God. For the Lord will recount in the scriptures of the peoples and of these princes, who were in it. The Lord, therefore, protects the authority of this place, and the Princes protect it too. Indeed, it is the tower of David, and a thousand shields hang from it, all the armor of the strong Song of Songs 4:4. And surely, what is stronger or more effective for establishing a certain truth, especially a Theological one, than an argument that has flowed from the very mouth of almighty God as the fountain and origin of all truth? And this is what Holy Scripture itself provides, which has and recognizes no Principle of itself other than God himself, who speaks to us in it, whether by Himself, or through the Prophets, or through the Apostles. Therefore, if you do not wish to overturn either the existence of God or the nature and Majesty of the Divinity itself along with the impious Atheists, you must confess that everything which proceeds from the mouth of God is most true, and is indeed the strength and foundation of all other truth. God is omnipotent, says the Great Aurelius St. Augustine in Sermon 1 on the Creed to the Catechumens, chapter 1, no. 2. And since He is omnipotent, He cannot die, He cannot be deceived, He cannot lie, and, as the Apostle says, He cannot deny Himself. How many things He cannot do, and He is omnipotent; and He is omnipotent precisely because He cannot do those things. For if He could die, He would not be omnipotent; if He could lie, or be deceived, or deceive, or act unjustly, He would not be omnipotent, because if this were in Him, He would not be worthy of being omnipotent.

And indeed, Canonical Scripture.

But since not every Scripture is useful and suitable for invincibly establishing the truth, except only that which is divinely inspired according to the Apostle, and found to be Canonical according to the teaching of the great Augustine (§. 1.), no other version besides this one