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32. These things, therefore, being heard and perceived according
to my weakness of apprehension, which I confess unto Thee, O
Lord, who knowest it, I see that two sorts of differences may arise
when by signs anything is related, even by true reporters,- one
concerning the truth of the things, the other concerning the meaning of
him who reports them. For in one way we inquire, concerning the
forming of the creature, what is true; but in another, what Moses,
that excellent servant of Thy faith, would have wished that the reader
and hearer should understand by these words. As for the first kind,
let all those depart from me who imagine themselves to know as true what
is false. And as for the other also, let all depart from me who
imagine Moses to have spoken things that are false. But let me be
united in Thee, O Lord, with them, and in Thee delight myself
with them that feed on Thy truth, in the breadth of charity; and let
us approach together unto the words of Thy book, and in them make
search for Thy will, through the will of Thy servant by whose pen
Thou hast dispensed them.
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