De Trinitate: Book 15 - Augustine

Among AD 400

“Whoever, then, can understand the word, not only before it sounds, but even before the images of its sound are contemplated in thought – such a word belongs to no language, that is, to none of the so-called national languages, of which ours is Latin – whoever, I say, can understand this, can already see through this mirror and in this enigma some likeness of that Word of whom it was said: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God; and the Word was God” [John 1:1].”

Augustine of Hippo (Among AD400). “De Trinitate”, P.186, Cambridge University Press, 2022