• The human mind can never be so powerful but that it will perceive the Divine Mind to be infinitely beyond its comprehension; or, as Buti interprets⁠—reading gli è parvente , which reading I have followed⁠—“much greater than what appears to the human mind, and what the human intellect sees.” ↩
• Milton, Paradise Lost , I 63:⁠— “No light, but rather darkness visible.” ↩
• Galatians 3:23:⁠— “But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.” ↩
• Matthew 7:21:⁠— “Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.” ↩
• Dryden, “Religio Laici,” 208:⁠— “Then those who followed Reason’s dictates right, Lived up, and lifted high her natural light, With Socrates may see their Maker’s face, While thousand rubric martyrs want a place.” ↩
• Matthew 12:41:⁠— “The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it.” ↩
• The righteous and the unrighteous at the day of judgment. ↩