Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VI/Gregory Thaumaturgus/Dubious or Spurious Writings/On the Subject of the Soul/Section I

by Gregory Thaumaturgus

I. Wherein is the Criterion for the Apprehension of the Soul.

All things that exist are either known by sense^[1] or apprehended by thought.^[2] And what falls under sense has its adequate demonstration in sense itself; for at once, with the application, it creates in us the impression^[3] of what underlies it. But what is apprehended by thought is known not by itself, but by its operations.^[4] The soul, consequently, being unknown by itself, shall be known property by its effects.

Footnotes

1. αἰσθήσει.
2. νοήσει.
3. φαντασίαν.
4. ἐνεργειῶν.