  The situation from which De divina omnipotentia resulted begun from Damian’s attempt to regulate what one may utter about God. Damian had been sitting at the table of Abbot Didier in Monte Cassino and eating. While they were eating, a passage in Jerome’s letter to Eustochium was read in which it is claimed that even though God is capable of everything (omnia possit), he cannot restore virginity to a woman who has lost it. Damian stated that he had always found it disturbing that an inability (inpossibilitas) was so lightly ascribed to God. A discussion followed in which Damian defended the view that God has the power of restoring virginity whereas Didier argued for Jerome’s view that he cannot restore it. In Damian’s view, there is a sense in which we can say that God can restore virginity, and therefore we must affirm that he can restore it (596C–601B).