While One Man Can Discover A Certain

The Mutakallemim... Apply The Term Non-existence Only To Absolute Non-existence, And Not To Absence Of Properties. A Property And The Absence Of That Property Are Considered By Them As Two Opposites, They Treat, E.g. , Blindness And Sight, Death And Life, In The Same Way As Heat And Cold. Therefore They Say, Without Any Qualification, Non-existence Does Not Require Any Agent, An Agent Is Required When Something Is Produced.

The Fact That Laws Were Given To Man, Both Affirmative And Negative, Supports The Principle, That God's Knowledge Of Future Events Does Not Change Their Character. The Great Doubt That Presents Itself To Our Mind Is The Result Of The Insufficiency Of Our Intellect.

The Generation Of Isaiah Did Not Require The Detailed Description; His Account, "i Saw The Lord," &c., Sufficed. The Generation Of The Babylonian Exile Wanted To Learn All The Details. ...isaiah Was So Familiar With It That He Did Not Consider It Necessary To Communicate It To Others As A New Thing, Especially As It Was Well Known To The Intelligent.

It Is Possible That The Meaning Of Wisdom In Hebrew Indicates Aptitude For Stratagems And The Application Of Thought In Such A Way That The Stratagems And Ruses May Be Used In Achieving Either Rational Or Moral Virtues, Or In Achieving Skill In A Practical Art, Or In Working Evil And Wickedness.

Every Ignoramus Imagines That All That Exists, Exists With A View To His Individual Sake; It Is As If There Were Nothing That Exists Except Him. And If Something Happens To Him That Is Contrary To What He Wishes, He Makes The Trenchant Judgement That All That Exists Is An Evil.