Translating Plato's philosophy to the context of Christian belief, Augustine finds that "out of a certain compassion for the masses God Most High bent down and subjected the authority of the divine intellect even to the human body itself"-in the incarnation of Jesus, the God-Man-so that God might recall "to the intelligible world souls blinded by the darkness of error and befouled by the slime of the body.
( Thomas Cahill )
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