Today’s reading centers on the authority and illumination of God’s truth through apostolic means. In Against Heresies, Book 3, Chapters 4–5, Irenaeus lays out his famous defense of apostolic succession, arguing that the true teaching of the Church is preserved through a public and traceable lineage from the apostles—not secret knowledge or hidden traditions. Augustine, in Confessions, Book 11.2, offers a deeply personal prayer, asking that the secret things of God’s Word be opened to him—not for earthly riches, but through grace in Christ, the Word made flesh. And in Summa Theologica, Part I, Question 94, Article 3, Aquinas explores whether the first man, Adam, knew all things. Thomas concludes that Adam’s knowledge was infused by God for the purpose of ruling over crea ...