 What are the clues we need to connect the metaphors of likening and measuring in a complementary way? We must return to Nicholas’ underlying conviction that our minds are images of God’s mind and that this connection between them is constant and thoroughgoing and thus should never be overlooked. Then we may begin to understand that just as God’s creative measuring sets the ontological limits of everything God creates, so our corresponding measuring can at best be assimilative of the mind-independent things we wish to know but do not create or place in reality, and yet be creative in measuring and adjudicating the conceptual domain that results from our knowing them.