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32. Therefore, although all, or nearly all, the transactions
recorded in the Old Testament are to be taken not literally only, but
figuratively as well, nevertheless even in the case of those which the
reader has taken literally, and which, though the authors of them are
praised, are repugnant to the habits of the good men who since our
Lord's advent are the custodians of the divine commands, let him
refer the figure to its interpretation, but let him not transfer the
act to his habits of life. For many things which were done as duties
at that time, cannot now be done except through lust.
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