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Reply to Faustus the Manichaean
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God asks Cain where his brother is, not as if He did not know, but as a judge asks a guilty criminal. Cain replies that he knows not, and that he is not his brother's keeper. And what answer can the Jews give at this day, when we ask them with the voice of God, that is, of the sacred Scriptures, about Christ, except that they do not know the Christ that we speak of? Cain's ignorance was pretended, and the Jews are deceived in their refusal of Christ. Moreover, they would have been in a sense keepers of Christ, if they had been willing to receive and keep the Christian faith. For the man who keeps Christ in his heart does not ask, like Cain, Am I my brother's keeper? Then God says to Cain, "What hast thou done? The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground." So the voice of God in the Holy Scriptures accuses the Jews. For the blood of Christ has a loud voice on the earth, when the responsive Amen of those who believe in Him comes from all nations. This is the voice of Christ's blood, because the clear voice of the faithful redeemed by His blood is the voice of the blood itself.
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Contra Faustum Manichaeum libri triginta tres
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Interrogat deus Cain non tamquam ignorans eum, a quo discat, sed tamquam iudex reum, quem puniat, ubi sit frater eius. p. 338,26 Respondit ille nescire se nec eius se esse custodem: Usque adhuc quid nobis respondent Iudaei, cum eos dei voce, hoc est sanctarum scripturarum voce, interrogamus de Christo, nisi nescire se Christum quem dicimus? Fallax enim Cain ignoratio, Iudaeorum est falsa negatio. Essent autem quodam modo Christi custodes, si christianam fidem accipere et custodire voluissent. Nam qui custodit in corde suo Christum, non dicit quod Cain: Numquid ego custos sum fratris mei?Dicit deus ad Cain: ‛Quid fecisti? Vox sanguinis fratris tui clamat ad me de terra’.: Sic arguit in scripturis sanctis vox divina Iudaeos. Habet enim magnam vocem Christi sanguis in terra, cum eo accepto ab omnibus gentibus respondetur: Amen. Haec est clara vox sanguinis, quam sanguis ipse exprimit ex ore fidelium eodem sanguine redemptorum. p. 339,11