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27 Oct 2018

Forbidden Knowledge

Si sapientiam et doctrinam Babyloniorum peccatum est discere, cur Danihel didicit quod non licebat?

Si Danihel sciret sapientiam Chaldaeorum esse peccatum, nunquam acquiesceret discere quod non licebat sicut nolebat comedere de mensa regis, neque bibere de vino ejus ne pollueretur. Nam et Moyses omnem sapientiam Aegyptiorum didicerat.


Petrus Archidiaconus  Liber De Diversis Quaestiunculis 

Migne 96 1348

If it is a sin to learn the wisdom and teaching of the Babylonians, why did Daniel learn what was not permitted? 1

If Daniel had known the Chaldean wisdom to be a sin, he would never have agreed to learn what was not permitted, just as he was unwilling to eat from the table of the king and to drink his wine lest he be defiled. 2 For even Moses learned all the wisdom of the Egyptians. 3


Peter of Pisa, The Book of Diverse Questions


1 Dan 1.4
2 Dan 1.8 
3 Acts 7.22

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