Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Obscurity of Scripture
Augustine, Sermons 352.6 (Patrologia Latina, vol. 39, col. 1555; tr. Edmund Hill):
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So what then, my dearest friends, if these things are now crystal-clear? It wasn't to cheat us, but to give us some innocent fun that they were first locked up in obscurity. They wouldn't be grasped, you see, with such pleasure, if they were rendered cheap by being laid out in the open.
Quid ergo, carissimi, si patent haec? Non ad fraudem, sed ad iucunditatem clausa erant. Neque enim tam dulciter caperentur, si prompta vilescerent.
