Outline

1. We must distinguish between the inner and the outer man. (1.1)

2. We must distinguish between the bodily object perceived, the vision, and the mind's attention.(2.2)

3. We do not distinguish during perception the form of the object and the form arising in sense. (2.3–5)

4. In memory there is this trinity: image, inner vision, and will that unites both. (3.6)

5. In a way, there are as many trinities in the mind as there are remembrances. (4.7–8.13)

6. It is impossible to form a concept of a color or sound or flavor one has never actually perceived. (8.15)

7. We can, however, make up mental images of objects we have never perceived. (9.16–11.18)

Chapter 1

No one doubts that, as the inner man is endowed with understanding, so the outer man is endowed with bodily sense. Let us endeavor, therefore, to discover, if we can, any trace at all of the Trinity even in this outer man, not that he himself is also in the same way the image of God. For the teaching of the Apostle is clear, where he says that the inner man is being renewed in the knowledge of God according to the image of Him who created him [cf. Colossians 3:10]; and when he also says in another place: “Even though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day” [2 Corinthians 4:16].