8 Thus was made of old the earth worthy of the complete perfection of the living being; 84 thus was the Virgin made impregnate; so that I commend thy opinion that human nature never was, 87 nor will be, what it was in those two persons. Now, if I should not proceed farther, ‘How then was that one without a peer?’ 90 would thy words begin. But, in order that that may clearly appear, which is not apparent, consider who he was, and the cause which moved 93 him, when it was said to him: ‘Ask’, to make request. I have not so spoken that thou canst not clearly see that he was a king, who asked for wisdom, 96 in order that a worthy king he might be; not to know the number of the motors here on high, or if necesse 99 with a contingent ever made necesse; non si est dare primum motum esse, or if in the semicircle can be made 102 a triangle so that it should not have one right angle. Wherefore if what I said and also this thou notest, a kingly prudence is that peerless seeing, 105 on which the arrow of my intention strikes. And if to the ‘has arisen’ thou directest clear eyes, thou wilt see it has only respect 108 to kings, who are many, and the good are rare.
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