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The phrase is based on a sentence of Augustine of Hippo (crede ut intellegas, [4] lit. "believe so that you may understand") [5] [2] to relate faith and reason. Augustine understood the saying to mean that a person must believe in something in order to know anything about God. [6] This sentence by Augustine is also inspired from Isaiah 7:9. [7]
[1] [better source needed] It is related to ad majorem Dei gloriam, a Latin phrase meaning "for the greater glory of God", the motto of the Society of Jesus. [2] Magis refers to the philosophy of doing more for Christ, and therefore doing more for others. It is an expression of an aspiration and inspiration.
The Sentences was probably compiled in the second century AD. The original collection was pagan. [1] It was later modified to reflect a Christian viewpoint, [2] although there are no explicit references to Jesus. [1] The earliest mention of the Sentences is by Origen in the mid third century. [3]
The sentence genre emerged from works like Prosper of Aquitaine's Sententia, a collection of maxims by Augustine of Hippo. [1]: 17 It was well-established by the time of Isidore of Seville's Senteniae, one of the first systematic treatments of Christian theology. [2] In the Sentences, Peter Lombard collects glosses from the Church Fathers.
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Personification, the attribution of human form and characteristics to abstract concepts such as nations, emotions and natural forces like seasons and the weather, is a literary device found in many ancient texts, including the Hebrew Bible and Christian New Testament.
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A man found 4-month-old and 5-month-old baby girls in a ditch outside his Indianapolis home after they were kidnapped in a vehicle earlier in the day.