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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