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WHEN the Lord was speaking with Abraham about the future (a point which
you did not ask about) we find that He did not enumerate seven nations, but
ten, whose land He promised to give to his seed. And this number is
plainly made up by adding idolatry, and blasphemy, to whose dominion,
before the knowledge of God and the grace of Baptism, both the irreligious
hosts of the Gentiles and blasphemous ones of the Jews were subject, while
they dwelt in a spiritual Egypt. But when a man has made his renunciation
and come forth from thence, and having by God's grace conquered gluttony,
has come into the spiritual wilderness, then he is free from the attacks of
these three, and will only have to wage war against those seven which Moses
enumerates.
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