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Read the sentences from Book XI of Confessions and answer the question.


Thou madest the artificer his body, Thou the mind commanding the limbs, Thou the matter whereof he makes any thing; Thou the apprehension whereby to take in his art, and see within what he doth without; Thou the sense of his body, whereby, as by an interpreter, he may from mind to matter, convey that which he doth, and report to his mind what is done; that it within may consult the truth, which presideth over itself, whether it be well done or no.


What word used in a summary of this passage would best capture the meaning of apprehension?


fear

act of arresting

faculty

point of view

Respuesta :

Thou the apprehension whereby to take in his art

apprehension

Answer: The right answer is the C) Faculty.

Explanation: Although the word apprehension is usually understood as fear or anxiety about something unpleasant that might happen, in this context it must be interpreted as faculty, or as capacity to understand. Saint Augustine of Hippo is here reflecting upon the creation of the world. In a previous line he wonders how was God capable of creating heaven and earth, and in these lines he describes what He did. Among other things, He gave man a body and a soul, as well as the faculty, the wit or the inventiveness to make art, and to see internally, in his mind, what he then forms into an external shape.