Posted on February 11, 2009 by John Uebersax
ALLEGORICAL INTERPRETATION, II{*}
II. (4) …”For I will make him,” says God, “a help-meet for him.” And, in the second place, is younger than the object to be helped; for, first of all, God created the mind [i.e., Adam], and subsequently he prepares to make its helper [Eve, as we shall see]. But all this [...]
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Posted on February 9, 2009 by John Uebersax
Exegesis of the Fall Adam and Eve in Lombard’s Sentences
Book 2, Distinction 24
Chapter IV.
On (man’s) sensuality.
For the sensuality is a certain inferior force of the soul, out of which there is a movement, which is intended for [intenditur in] the senses of the7 body and the appetite for things pertaining to the body; but the [...]
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