Saint Augustine



Against Faustus

Book XXII
Chapter 7




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Saint Augustine (354-430)

Against Faustus

Translated by Richard Stothert

Book XXII

Chapter 7


Those, accordingly, who, finding fault with what they do not understand, call the typical institutions of the law disfigurements and excrescences, are like men displeased with things of which they do not know the use. As if a deaf man, seeing others move their lips in speaking, were to find fault with the motion of the mouth as needless and unsightly; or as if a blind man, on hearing a house commended, were to test the truth of what he heard by passing his hand over the surface of the wall, and on coming to the windows were to cry out against them as flaws in the level, or were to suppose that the wall had fallen in.





Book XXII
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