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It is very right that these blessed and immortal spirits, who inhabit
celestial dwellings, and rejoice in the communications of their
Creator's fullness, firm in His eternity, assured in His truth,
holy by His grace, since they compassionately and tenderly regard us
miserable mortals, and wish us to become immortal and happy, do not
desire us to sacrifice to themselves, but to Him whose sacrifice they
know themselves to be in common with us. For we and they together are
the one city of God, to which it is said in the psalm, "Glorious
things are spoken of thee, O city of God;" the human part
sojourning here below, the angelic aiding from above. For from that
heavenly city, in which God's will is the intelligible and
unchangeable law, from that heavenly council-chamber, for they sit in
counsel regarding us, that holy Scripture, descended to us by the
ministry of angels, in which it is written, "He that sacrificeth
unto any god, save unto the Lord only, he shall be utterly
destroyed,", this Scripture, this law, these precepts, have been
confirmed by such miracles, that it is sufficiently evident to whom
these immortal and blessed spirits, who desire us to be like
themselves, wish us to sacrifice.
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