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   From: afoklala@afoklala.invalid   
      
   time of His coming.   
      
   The world having grown old in these carnal errors, Jesus Christ came at the   
   time foretold, but not with the expected glory; and thus men did not think   
   it was He. After His death, Saint Paul came to teach men that all these   
   things had happened in allegory; that the kingdom of God did not consist in   
   the flesh, but in the spirit; that the enemies of men were not the   
   Babylonians, but the passions; that God delighted not in temples made with   
   hands, but in a pure and contrite heart; that the circumcision of the body   
   was unprofitable, but that of the heart was needed; that Moses had not given   
   them the bread from heaven, etc.   
      
   But God, not having desired to reveal these things to this people who were   
   unworthy of them and having, nevertheless, desired to foretell them, in   
   order that they might be believed, foretold the time clearly, and expressed   
   the things sometimes clearly, but very often in figures, in order that those   
   who loved symbols might consider them and those who loved what was   
   symbolised might see it therein.   
      
   All that tends not to charity is figurative.   
      
   The sole aim of the Scripture is charity.   
      
   All which tends not to the sole end is the type of it. For since there is   
   only one end, all which does not lead to it in express terms is figurative.   
      
   God thus varies that sole precept of charity to satisfy our curiosity which   
   seeks for variety, by that variety which still leads us to the one thing   
   needful. For one thing alone is needful, and we love variety; and God   
   satisfies both by these varieties, which lead to the one thing needful.   
      
   The Jews have so much loved the shadows and have   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)