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The world is filled like a field with the fragrance of the name of Christ; and his is the blessing of the dew of heaven, that is, of the showers of divine words, of the richness of the soil, that is of the gathering of the peoples. It is Christ whom the nations serve, and to whom the princes do reverence. He is lord over his brother, since his people have dominion over the Jews.

His wisdom comprehends all incomprehensible things with such incomprehensible comprehension that if it wished always to create new things of every possible kind, each of them unlike its predecessor, none of them could be for him undesigned and unforeseen.

God's wisdom would contain each and all of them in his eternal prescience.

For to defect from him who is the Supreme Existence, to something of less reality, this is to begin to have an evil will. To try to discover the causes of such defection - deficient, not efficient causes - is like trying to see darkness or to hear silence. Yet we are familiar with darkness and silence, and we can only be aware of them by means of eyes and ears - not by perception, but by absence of perception.

Finished Part 1 of 2 ✅
- pagans: decimated
- neo-platonists: excoriated

On to the two cities ➡️

If man comes near to God in proportion as he grows more like him, then unlikeness to God is the only separation from him, and the soul of man is estranged from that immortal, eternal, and unchangeable being in proportion as it craves for things that are temporal and changeable.