We thereby acknowledge that the Supreme Being is quite inscrutable and even unthinkable in any definite way as to what he is in himself. We are thereby kept, on the one hand, from making a transcendent use of the concepts which we have of reason as an efficient cause (by means of the will), in order to determine the Divine Nature by properties, which are only borrowed from human nature, and from losing ourselves in gross and extravagant notions, and on the other hand from deluging the contemplation of the world with hyperphysical modes of explanation according to our notions of human reason, which we transfer to God, and so losing for this contemplation its proper application, according to which it should be a rational study of mere nature, and not a presumptuous derivation of its appearances from a Supreme Reason.
Aitortu egiten dugu horrela, ezen izaki gorena, berbaitan denaren arabera, ikertu ezinekoa dela guretzat eta bururatu ezinekoa ere bai modu zehatz batean; horrek ez digu uzten arrazoia modu transzendentean erabiltzen, guk arrazoiaz (borondateari esker), kausa egile bati buruz bezala, dauzkagun kontzeptuen arabera, jainko-izaera determinatzeko, eta determinatu ere beti giza izaeratik bakarrik hartutakoak diren berekitasunekin, gu geu kontzeptu trakets eta fantasiazkoetan galtzen garela;