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[86] Gen. vi. 6, and 1 Sam. xv. 11.
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[98] That is to say, it was an obvious and indisputable transgression.
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[103] Cicero, Tusc. Quæst. iii. 6 and iv. 9. So Aristotle.
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[106] An error which arose from the words, "The eyes of them both were opened," Gen. iii. 7.—See De Genesi ad lit. ii. 40.
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[108] This doctrine and phraseology of Augustine being important in connection with his whole theory of the fall, we give some parallel passages to show that the words are not used at random: De Genesi ad lit. xi. 41; De Corrept. et Gratia, xi. 31; and especially Cont. Julian. iv. 82.
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[110] See Plato's Republic, book iv.
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[111] The one word being the Latin form, the other the Greek, of the same adjective.
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[112] By Diogenes Laertius, vi. 69, and Cicero, De Offic. i. 41.

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The City of God, Volume II, Project Gutenberg eBook #45305

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