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What, then, do you mean, most subtle disputant?Is modesty about God’s works sacrilegious, because everything God has made must be done openly, lest our hesitation seem to accuse the craftsman?Then the apostle Paul was wrong when he described God’s works and said, “Our less respectable parts receive greater honor; and God arranged the body, giving more abundant honor to the part that lacked it, so that there should be no division in the body” (1 Corinthians 12:23–25).
Quid ergo vis, subtilissime disputator? Sacrilegam esse in Dei operibus verecundiam, quia omnia quae Deus fecerit, passim agi debeant, ne nostra trepidatio opificem videatur arguere? Erravit ergo apostolus Paulus, qui Dei opera describens, ait: Verecundiora nostra maiorem honestatem habent; et Deus temperavit corpus, ei cui deerat abundantiore dato honore, ut non sit scissura in corpore [n58] .