[210] Echard, de Script. Ord. t. i. 435.
[211] In c. 5. Matth. quoted by Touron, liv. 4, ch. 3.
[212] Lib. 1, contra Gentil. c. 2, quoted by Touron.
[213] Boll. p. 715, n. 80.
[214] This idea is doubtless little in accordance with our ordinary way of regarding the mechanical arts, but the reader will remember the words of Scripture, which tells us how the Lord called Beseleel the son of Uri, and filled him with the Spirit of God, with wisdom and understanding and all learning to work in gold and silver and carpenter’s work; and how He put wisdom into the heart of every skilful man to know how to work artificially, and to the women that they might spin fine linen. (Exod. xxxi. 3; xxxv. 25, 35; xxxvi. 1.) How sublime is this view, which displays to us every part of human knowledge, the humblest as well as the most profound, as, alike, but sparks from the One Fontal Light,—the Illuminating Spirit of God!
[215] S. Bonaventure (quoted in the Dublin Review, Dec. 1851), from his small work called “The Reduction of the Arts to Theology.”
[216] De Studio legendi, iii. 3-6, quoted in the Appendix to Newman’s University Lectures.
[217] Eccl. Hist. vol. 18, p. 434-444.
[218] Ibid. vol. 18, p. 444.
[219] See Touron, Vies des Hommes Illustres, tom. i. 489-504; where are also to be found notices of F. Paul Christiani, and other Hebrew scholars of the order.