Today’s readings move from the certainty of God to the hidden depths of the mind and the spiritual taste of wisdom. Tertullian continues Against Marcion by challenging the idea of a newly revealed and formerly unknown god, arguing that the true God could not have remained unknown, because the Creator has always borne witness to Himself through creation, conscience, and the soul’s natural knowledge of God. Augustine then reflects on truths that do not enter memory through the bodily senses, asking how realities like existence, definition, and quality are recognized by the mind as true when they seem to arise from deeper places within. Aquinas closes by joining wisdom and folly together: wisdom is the Spirit-given taste for divine things that flows from charity, while folly is the dullness that comes when the soul becomes too attached to e ...