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"First and foremost among... favors which the Almighty hath conferred upon man, is the gift of understanding. His purpose in conferring such a gift is none other except to enable His creature to know and recognize the one true God." With "the rational faculty... God hath endowed the essence of man." "God's greatest gift to man is that of intellect, or understanding. The understanding is the power by which man acquires his knowledge of the several kingdoms of creation, and of various stages of existence, as well as of much which is invisible." (Bwf 121- 2); Gl 164; Pt 41)
(35:6)
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