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De Principiis
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[2056] Cf. Rom. viii. 20, 21.
[2062] Ps. xxxiv. 7. Tum demun per singulos minimorum, qui sunt in ecclesiâ, qui vel qui adscribi singulis debeant angeli, qui etiam quotidie videant faciem Dei; sed et quis debeat esse angelus, qui circumdet in circuitu timentium Deum.
[2064] Cf. Rom. ii. 11.
[2065] [See Exod. xxi. 28, 29. S.]
Translated in the Same Epistle to Avitus.
[2066] De quibusdam repagulis atque carceribus. There is an allusion here to the race-course and the mode of starting the chariots.
[2067] The words “in aquis” are omitted in Redepenning’s edition.
[2068] The original of this sentence is found at the close of the Emperor Justinian’s Epistle to Menas, patriarch of Constantinople, and, literally translated, is as follows: “The world being so very varied, and containing so many different rational beings, what else ought we to say was the cause of its existence than the diversity of the falling away of those who decline from unity (τῆς ἑνάδος) in different ways?”—Ruæus. Lommatzsch adds a clause not contained in the note of the Benedictine editor: “And sometimes the soul selects the life that is in water” (ἔνυδρον).
[2069] Lit. “into various qualities of mind.”
[2070] “Et diversi motus propositi earum (rationabilium subsistentiarum) ad unius mundi consonantiam competenter atque utiliter aptarentur, dum aliæ juvari indigent, aliæ juvare possunt, aliæ vero proficientibus certamina atque agones movent, in quibus eorum probabilior haberetur industria, et certior post victoriam reparati gradus statio teneretur, quæ per difficultates laborantium constitisset.”
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