Explanation: Although the word apprehension is usually understood as fear or anxiety about something unpleasant that might happen, in this context it must be interpreted as faculty, or as capacity to understand. Saint Augustine of Hippo is here reflecting upon the creation of the world. In a previous line he wonders how was God capable of creating heaven and earth, and in these lines he describes what He did. Among other things, He gave man a body and a soul, as well as the faculty, the wit or the inventiveness to make art, and to see internally, in his mind, what he then forms into an external shape.
