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Reply to Faustus the Manichaean

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Faustus, therefore, is wrong in supposing that the Lord Jesus fulfilled some precepts of righteous men who lived before the law of Moses, such as, "Thou shall not kill," which Christ did not oppose, but rather confirmed by His prohibition of anger and abuse; and that He destroyed some things apparently peculiar to the Hebrew law, such as, "An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth," which Christ seems rather to abolish than to confirm, when He says, "But I say unto you, that ye resist not evil; but if any one smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also," ¹ and so on. But we say that even these things which Faustus thinks Christ destroyed by enjoining the opposite, were suitable to the times of the Old Testament, and were not destroyed, but fulfilled by Christ.

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Contra Faustum Manichaeum libri triginta tres

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Non itaque, sicut Faustus opinatur, quaedam dominus Iesus adimplevit, quae ab antiquis iustis iam dicta erant ante legem Moyseos, sicuti est: Non occides, quod non contrario redarguit, sed magis firmavit, cum et ab ira et a convicio revocavit, quaedam vero solvit, quae propria videbantur legis Hebraeorum, sicuti est: Oculum pro oculo, dentem pro dente, quod videtur potius abstulisse quam confirmasse, cum ait: Ego autem dico vobis non resistere malo; sed si quis te percusserit in maxillam tuam dextram, praebe illi et alteram et cetera. p. 518,13 Nos enim dicimus etiam haec, quae isti putant solvisse Christum velut contraria referendo, et tunc pro tempore bene fuisse instituta et nunc a Christo non soluta, sed adimpleta.