Theology is also commended by its author — God, not Aristotle or Euclid
But as much as this science is commended from its object, so much also does its author commend it. For the remaining sciences glory in some illustrious man as their chief author. Aristotle is held the prince of the philosophers, and Hippocrates of the physicians; and the mathematical disciplines acknowledge Euclid as their parent. But theology claims God for itself as author, from whom this sacred teaching has flowed forth. For prophecy was not brought in of old by the will of man, as the Apostle Peter says (2 Peter 1:21); but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit, who first consigned it in writing.
Not without the deity, indeed, were the good arts and disciplines invented; and the light of reason itself descends from the Father of lights (James 1:17), who is the mover and governor of nature. But the principles on which theology rests are the express sayings and oracles of God, by which those things are made manifest which could not have become known except by a light higher than reason.
Latin
XXIX. Sed quantum haec scientia commendatur ab objecto, eam tantundem commendat ejus autor. Reliquae enim scientiae illustri aliquo viro tanquam praecipuo authore gloriantur. Aristoteles habetur Philosophorum princeps, et Medicorum Hippocrates: Mathematicae vero disciplinae parentem agnoscunt Euclidem. At Theologia Deum sibi vindicat authorem, a quo sacra haec doctrina emanavit. Non enim libitu hominis allata est olim prophetia, ut Petrus Apostolus ait, sed acti a Spiritu sancto loquuti sunt sancti homines Dei, qui primum eam scriptis consignarunt. XXX. Non sine numine quidem inventae sunt bonae artes, et disciplinae: et ipsum rationis lumen descendit a Patre luminum, qui est naturae motor et gubernator. Sed principia, quibus Theologia nititur, sunt expressa Dei dicta et oracula, quibus manifestantur ea, quae non potuerunt innotescere, nisi per lumen ratione altius.