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Marsilio Ficino's 'si deus fiat homo' and Augustine's 'non ibi legi': The Incarnation and Plato's Persona in the Scholia to the Laws

Book vii.9 of Augustine's Confessions contains a well-known comparison between the Gospel of John and the 'books of the Platonists'. Situated in the iddle of the Confessions, the passage functions as a central pivot in Augustine's conversion, indicating the Platonic turn away from his past life towards a new Christian one. Yet Augustine's message in chapter 9 is that although the Platonicorum libri serve as an initial protreptic reorientation, they do not enable us to reach the intended fatherland. Quoting not the Platonists themselves but John's 'in principio erat verbum', Augustine tells us that in these works he read ('ibi legi') the reasons found in the opening of John's Gospel. His prosopopoeic rhetorical device, in effect, estab lishes the comparison between the Johannine and the Platonic logos by expressing the Scriptures ex Platonicorum persona.1 Nevertheless, the similarities end with the Incarnation. Its absence is noted in the rhetorical comparison by Augustine's reduplicative use of'non ibi legi' (vii.9.13, 14), the similar 'non habent illi libri' and 'non est ibi', as well as the statement that the Platonists lack humility since they are deaf ('non audiunt', vn.9.14) to Christ's teachings—all of which strongly emphasise the essential doctrinal difference that the Platonicorum libri do not mention the Incarnation.