Book XIV.
The true wisdom of man is treated of; and it is shown that the image of God, which man is in respect to his mind, is not placed properly in transitory things, as in memory, understanding, and love, whether of faith itself as existing in time, or even of the mind as busied with itself, but in things that are permanent; and that this wisdom is then perfected, when the mind is renewed in the knowledge of God, according to the image of Him who created man after His own Image, and thus attains to wisdom, wherein that which is contemplated is eternal.
LIBER QUARTUS DECIMUS. De sapientia hominis vera dicit, ostendens imaginem Dei, quod est homo secundum mentem, non proprie in transeuntibus, veluti in memoria, intellectu et amore, sive ipsius temporalis fidei, sive etiam mentis circa se ipsam versantis, sed in permanentibus rebus collocatam; ac eam tunc perfici, cum mens renovatur in agnitione Dei secundum imaginem ejus qui creavit hominem ad imaginem suam, et sic percipit sapientiam, ubi contemplatio est aeternorum.
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