In today’s readings, Augustine reflects on the painful irony that although all people claim to love truth, many secretly resent it—because truth doesn’t just illuminate; it exposes. He meditates on how God dwells in memory—not in a physical space, but as the Truth Himself, who cannot be forgotten once known. Aquinas follows with a related insight in Summa Theologica by arguing that our intellect knows individuals not directly, but through the imagination, which supplies the sensory particulars that abstract knowledge alone lacks. Finally, Irenaeus opens Book II of Against Heresies by recounting how Book I dismantled the Gnostic system at its roots, and now he prepares to unravel their structure further, head-on and point-by-point, beginning with the absurdity of their "Bythus." Together, these texts explore the tension between abstraction and experience, memory and matter, error and the embodied truth of God (John 14:6; Galatians 4:16; Romans 1:20).

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