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Contra Faustum Manichaeum libri triginta tres

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Quid iam regum temporibus, ut et inde pauca commemorem? p. 361,2 Nonne ab ipso exordio commutatum sacerdotium in Samuhelem reprobato Heli et commutatum regnum in David reprobato Saule clamat praenuntiari novum sacerdotium novumque regnum reprobato vetere, quod umbra erat futuri, in domino nostro Iesu Christo venturum? Nonne ipse David, cum panes propositionis manducavit, quos non licebat manducare nisi solis sacerdotibus, in una persona utrumque futurum, id est in uno Iesu Christo regnum et sacerdotium figuravit? Nonne cum decem tribus a templo separatae sunt et duae derelictae, satis indicat, quod de tota ipsa gente apostolus ait: Reliquiae per electionem gratiae salvae factae sunt? p. 361,14

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Reply to Faustus the Manichaean

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To mention only a few things in the times of the kings, at the very outset does not the change in the priesthood when Eli was rejected and Samuel chosen, and in the kingdom when Saul was rejected and David chosen, clearly predict the new priesthood and kingdom to come in our Lord Jesus Christ, when the old, which was a shadow of the new, was rejected? Did not David, when he ate the shew-bread, which it was not lawful for any but the priests to eat, prefigure the union of the kingdom and priesthood in one person, Jesus Christ? In the separation of the ten tribes from the temple while two were left, is there not a figure of what the apostle asserts of the whole nation: "A remnant is saved by the election of grace."? ¹