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Some philosophers taught that nothing can be known for certain. Augustine rejects that but admits knowledge is limited, and explains why with the Wisdom of Solomon on the body pressing down the mind and with Paul on knowing only in part.
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1000+ CE

Wisdom of Solomon 9:15

Deuterocanon
13 For what person can know the counsel of God? Or who can conceive what the Lord wills? 14 For the thoughts of mortals are timid, and our plans are likely to fail. 15 For a perishable body weighs down the soul, and the earthly tent burdens a mind full of cares. 16 We can hardly guess at the things on earth, and we find what is close at hand only with effort; but who has traced out the things in the heavens? 17 Who has come to know your counsel, unless you gave wisdom and sent your holy spirit from on high?
Date: 100-50 B.C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)

Augustine, City of God 19.18

On the City of God Against the Pagans
Early Christian
As regards the uncertainty about everything which Varro alleges to be the differentiating characteristic of the New Academy, the city of God thoroughly detests such doubt as madness. Regarding matters which it apprehends by the mind and reason it has most absolute certainty, although its knowledge is limited because of the corruptible body pressing down the mind, for, as the apostle says, “We know in part.” 1 Corinthians 13:9 It believes also the evidence of the senses which the mind uses by aid of the body; for [if one who trusts his senses is sometimes deceived], he is more wretchedly deceived who fancies he should never trust them. It believes also the Holy Scriptures, old and new, which we call canonical, and which are the source of the faith by which the just lives Habakkuk 2:4 and by which we walk without doubting while we are absent from the Lord.
Date: 426 C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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“... Patristic writers cited the work frequently, especially in formulating Christological and trinitarian doctrine. Thus Ignatius applied to Christ language from 7:29–30 about Wisdom, and from 18:14–15 about the logos (Ephesians 18.2–3; Magnesians 8.2). Origen cited Wisdom’s attributes in 7:22–8:1 to support the eternal generation of the Son by the Father and the sharing of the Father and Son in the same essence (On First Principles 1.2.5, 9; Against Celsus 5.10; 8.14). Augustine used the same passage to argue for the full equality of the persons of the trinity (On the Gospel of John 21.2; 22.10; 111.2; On the Trinity 2.5, 8; 4.20). Augustine also drew often on 9:15–17, according to which the perishable body weighs down the soul and spiritual insight requires the gift of the spirit, to formulate his anthropology (e.g. Confessions 7.17; City of God 19.24; Enchiridion 64); and he saw in the portrayal of the persecuted righteous one in 2:12–20 a prediction of Christ’s passion (City of God 17.20). ...”

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