God Teaches the Law

The Institutes, the Conferences and On the Incarnation

The Conferences, Conference 3

God Teaches the Law

They also strive daily to gain knowledge of the law itself, not by diligence in reading, but by the guidance and enlightenment of God, as they say to him: “Show me your ways, O Lord, and teach me your paths”; and, “Open my eyes, and I will see the wonderful things of your law”; and, “Teach me to do your will, for you are my God”; and again, “He who teaches man knowledge.”