Thomas Cahill Quote
Translating Plato’s philosophy to the context of Christian belief, Augustine finds that out of a certain compassion for the masses God Most High bent down and subjected the authority of the divine intellect even to the human body itself—in the incarnation of Jesus, the God-Man—so that God might recall to the intelligible world souls blinded by the darkness of error and befouled by the slime of the body.
Thomas Cahill
Translating Plato’s philosophy to the context of Christian belief, Augustine finds that out of a certain compassion for the masses God Most High bent down and subjected the authority of the divine intellect even to the human body itself—in the incarnation of Jesus, the God-Man—so that God might recall to the intelligible world souls blinded by the darkness of error and befouled by the slime of the body.