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And God was not ignorant that man would sin, and that, being himself
made subject now to death, he would propagate men doomed to die, and
that these mortals would run to such enormities in sin, that even the
beasts devoid of rational will, and who were created in numbers from
the waters and the earth, would live more securely and peaceably with
their own kind than men, who had been propagated from one individual
for the very purpose of commending concord. For not even lions or
dragons have ever waged with their kind such wars as men have waged with
one another. But God foresaw also that by His grace a people would
be called to adoption, and that they, being justified by the remission
of their sins, would be united by the Holy Ghost to the holy angels
in eternal peace, the last enemy, death, being destroyed; and He
knew that this people would derive profit from the consideration that
God had caused all men to be derived from one, for the sake of showing
how highly He prizes unity in a multitude.
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