Monologium, on the Being of God47 Chapter XLVII. The Son is the intelligence of intelligence and the Truth of truth.

St Anselm († 1109) · Monologion · 1075-1076

Chapter XLVII. The Son is the intelligence of intelligence and the Truth of truth.

But if the very substance of the Father is intelligence, and knowledge, and wisdom, and truth, it is consequently inferred that as the Son is the intelligence, and knowledge, and wisdom, and truth, of the paternal substance, so he is the intelligence of intelligence, the knowledge of knowledge, the wisdom of wisdom, and the truth of truth.

At si ipsa substantia Patris est intelligentia, et scientia, et sapientia, et veritas, consequenter colligitur quia sicut Filius est intelligentia, et scientia, et sapientia, et veritas paternae substantiae; ita est intelligentia intelligentiae, scientia scientiae, sapientia sapientiae, et veritas veritatis.

Sidney Norton Deane (1878–1943), Chicago: Open Court, 1903. Digital text: English Wikisource transcription of the 1903 edition (each chapter checked against the OCR of the Internet Archive scan stanselmeproslog00anseuoft). Original text: Corpus Corporum (University of Zurich) TEI of the Patrologia Latina, via the CatholicCorpus mirror. Public domain in the US and Canada: published 1903; translator died 1943. Latin: Migne, PL 158 (1853), public domain.

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