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84 ST. AUGUSTINE 49. WHY IS IT THA T THE SONS OF ISRAEL USED TO MAKE VISIBLE SACRIFICE OF ANIMAL VICTIMS?1 Because there are also sacred things of a spiritual nature whose images a carnal people had to celebrate in order that the new people might be prefigured by the servitude of the old. One may also note in each one of us the same difference between these two peoples, since each person necessarily leads the life of the "old man" from his mother's womb until he arrives at the age of youth, where now it is not necessary to know in a carnal manner, but he can by an act of wil12 turn himself to spiritual things and be reborn within. It is a very grand thing, therefore, that what develops naturally and by training in an individual properly educated is proportionately effected and brought to completion by Divine Providence in the whole of the human race. 50. ON THE EQUALITY OF THE SON Since God could not beget something better than himself (for nothing is better than God), then the one whom he did beget he had to beget as his equal. For if he had the desire and not the power, then he is weak; if he had the power and not the desire, then he is envious. From this it follows that God has begotten the Son as his equal. 51. ON MAN MADE IN THE IMAGE AND LIKENESS OF GOD (1) Since the divine Scripture mentions the outer and the inner man and distinguishes them to the point that it is said 1 cr. DCD 10.5 (PL 41.281-83). 2 uoluntate. ...

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