metaphor, and Bacon: “The theological concept is preserved by 
Francis Bacon: ‘Num salvator noster inquit: Erratis nescientes 
Scripturas et potentiam Dei (Matt. 22, 29), ubi duos libros, ne 
inerrores, proponit nobis evolvendos.’ (De Augmentis  
Scientiarum , Bk. I.)” Since, however, our present goal is merely 
to relate Bacon’s notion of science to the medieval tradition of 
the two Scriptures of Revelation and Nature, it is possible to 
limit discussion to The Advancement of Learning  readily 
accessible in the Everyman edition. Here, too, Bacon makes use 
of the same text from Matthew (pp. 41­2):

     . . . for as the Psalms and other Scriptures do often 
     invite us to consider and magnify the great and wonderful 
     works of God, so if we should rest only in the 
     contemplation of the exterior of them, as they first offer 
     themselves to our senses, we should do a like injury unto