Works Augustine of Hippo (354-430) De moribus Ecclesiae catholicae et de moribus Manichaeorum On the Morals of the Catholic Church and of the Manichaeans
On the Morals of the Manichaeans.
Chapter 9.--The Manichaean Fictions About Things Good and Evil are Not Consistent with Themselves.

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Can you tell me how it is that in the chief evil so many good things are to be found, the opposites of the evils above mentioned? and if these are not evils, can any substance be an evil, as far as it is a substance? If weakness is not an evil, can a weak body be an evil? If blindness is not an evil, can darkness be an evil? If deafness is not an evil, can a deaf man be an evil? If dumbness is not an evil, can a fish be an evil? If sterility is not an evil, how can we call a barren animal an evil? If exile is not an evil, how can we give that name to an animal in exile, or to an animal sending some one into exile? If servitude is not an evil, in what sense is a subject animal an evil, or one enforcing subjection? If death is not an evil, in what sense is a mortal animal an evil, or one causing death? Or if these are evils, must we not give the name of good things to bodily strength, sight, hearing, persuasive speech, fertility, native land, liberty, life, all which you hold to exist in that kingdom of evil, and yet venture to call it the perfection of evil?

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Des moeurs de l'Église Catholique et des moeurs des Manichéens Compare
On the Morals of the Catholic Church and of the Manichaeans

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