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What the Fathers say

Joshua 1:7

Western Saints

Bonaventure

"Do not turn aside from the law; so that you may understand all that you do." Prudential understanding teaches what is to be carried out, namely every good, according to the way of interior thought and exterior action. God wills that we do all things reasonably. And blessed Ambrose says that we ought neither to do nor to speak anything about that for which we cannot give a reason.

Collationes de Septem Donis, Collation 8 ↗