Regiomontanus
Ματαιοδοξία ματαιοδοξιών! Όλα είναι ματαιοδοξία.
As I started to reread this classic book, I was again struck by this passage. Sublime stuff.
This is near the beginning of St. Augustine' Confessions.
And how shall I call upon my God--my God and my Lord? For when I call
on him I ask him to come into me. And what place is there in me into which my God
can come? How could God, the God who made both heaven and earth, come into me?
Is there anything in me, O Lord my God that can contain thee? Do even the heaven
and the earth, which thou hast made, and in which thou didst make me, contain
thee? Is it possible that, since without thee nothing would be which does exist, thou
didst make it so that whatever exists has some capacity to receive thee? Why, then,
do I ask thee to come into me, since I also am and could not be if thou wert not in
me? For I am not, after all, in hell--and yet thou art there too, for “if I go down into hell,
thou art there.” Therefore I would not exist--I would simply not be at all--
unless I exist in thee, from whom and by whom and in whom all things are. Even so,
Lord; even so. Where do I call thee to, when I am already in thee? Or from whence
wouldst thou come into me? Where, beyond heaven and earth, could I go that there
my God might come to me--he who hath said, “I fill heaven and earth”?
Full, free text of this 'great book' is here:
This is near the beginning of St. Augustine' Confessions.
CHAPTER II
And how shall I call upon my God--my God and my Lord? For when I call
on him I ask him to come into me. And what place is there in me into which my God
can come? How could God, the God who made both heaven and earth, come into me?
Is there anything in me, O Lord my God that can contain thee? Do even the heaven
and the earth, which thou hast made, and in which thou didst make me, contain
thee? Is it possible that, since without thee nothing would be which does exist, thou
didst make it so that whatever exists has some capacity to receive thee? Why, then,
do I ask thee to come into me, since I also am and could not be if thou wert not in
me? For I am not, after all, in hell--and yet thou art there too, for “if I go down into hell,
thou art there.” Therefore I would not exist--I would simply not be at all--
unless I exist in thee, from whom and by whom and in whom all things are. Even so,
Lord; even so. Where do I call thee to, when I am already in thee? Or from whence
wouldst thou come into me? Where, beyond heaven and earth, could I go that there
my God might come to me--he who hath said, “I fill heaven and earth”?
Full, free text of this 'great book' is here:
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