accepted of with caution and | 1 Peter 1, 16:
|
| Authorized Version: For it is written,
| Be ye holy; for I am holy.
| see also Leviticus 20,7 and 20,26
distinction{12}; being now to open a | 12. cf. A.L. Sp.III, 264, 1.18 (D.A.
fountain, such as it is not easy to | Sp. I, 433, I. 29,30)
discern where the issues and streams |
thereof will take and fall; I thought it |
good and necessary in the first place to |
make a strong and sound head or bank to |
rule and guide the course of the waters; |
by setting down this position or |
firmament{13}, namely, THAT ALL KNOWLEDGE | 13. Melek Hasgün comments:
IS TO BE LIMITED BY RELIGION, AND TO BE | ‘Firmament’ means, apart from the arch
REFERRED | or vault of heaven overhead, in which
| the clouds and the stars appear, in
| the literal etymological sense a firm
| support or foundation. At the
| beginning of his text Bacon sets
| the basis for his further theories.
| According to Bacon it is important not
| to try to find out the secrets and
| mysteries of God or to desire to be
| like God, as was the case in the Fall
| of Man and the Fall of Angels. Thus it
| is forbidden to exceed these limits,
| but to inquire into nature and its
| creatures is legitimate, because God
| has "...let man have dominion over