Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series I/Volume II/On Christian Doctrine/Book II/Chapter 19

Chapter 19.—Two Kinds Of Heathen Knowledge.

29.&#160; But to explain more fully this whole topic (for it is one that cannot be omitted), there are two kinds of knowledge which are in vogue among the heathen.&#160; One is the knowledge of things instituted by men, the other of things which they have noted, either as transacted in the past or as instituted by God.&#160; The former kind, that which deals with human institutions, is partly superstitious, partly not.