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The key to the understanding and to the full comprehension of all that the Prophets have said is found in the knowledge of the figures, their general ideas, and the meaning of each word they contain.

The key to the understanding and to the full comprehension of all that the Prophets have said is found in the knowledge of the figures, their general ideas, and the meaning of each word they contain.

Maimonides
Keys, Ideas, Understanding
Moses Maimonides (2016). “Guide for the perplexed”, p.155, Moses Maimonides

Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion.

Maimonides
Understanding, Opinion, Philosopher
Moses Maimonides (2016). “Guide for the perplexed”, p.283, Moses Maimonides

Divine Providence is connected with Divine intellectual influence, and the same beings which are benefited by the latter so as to become intellectual, and to comprehend things comprehensible to rational beings, are also under the control of Divine Providence, which examines all their deeds with a view of rewarding or punishing them. ...the method of which our mind is incapable of understanding.

Maimonides
Views, Understanding, Intellectual
"Guide for the Perplexed". Book by Maimonides, Ch.17, 1190.

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