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Contra Faustum Manichaeum libri triginta tres
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De sacrificiis autem animalium quis nostrum nesciat magis ea perverso populo congruenter imposita quam deo desideranti oblata? Sed tamen etiam in his figurae nostrae fuerunt, quia nostra mundatio et dei propitiatio nobis sine sanguine nulla est. Sed illarum figurarum veritas Christus est, cuius sanguine redempti et mundati sumus. p. 495,3 Nam in figuris eloquiorum divinorum et taurus dictus est propter virtutem crucis, cuius cornibus impios ventilavit, et aries propter innocentiae principatum et hircus propter similitudinem carnis peccati, ut de peccato damnaret peccatum, et si quod aliud sacrificii genus expressius commemoraveris, in eo quoque tibi Christum prophetatum esse monstrabo. Quocirca sive circumcisio sive sabbatum sive differentia ciborum sive immolatio sarificiorum: omnia haec figurae nostrae fuerunt et prophetiae, quas Christus non solvere, sed adimplere venit, cum ea, quae his praenuntiabantur, implevit. Attende cui contradicas! Cum apostolo, ex apostolo dico: Omnia haec figurae nostrae fuerunt. p. 495,16
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Reply to Faustus the Manichaean
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As regards animal sacrifices, every Christian knows that they were enjoined as suitable to a perverse people, and not because God had any pleasure in them. Still, even in these sacrifices there were types of what we enjoy; for we cannot obtain purification or the propitiation of God without blood. The fulfillment of these types is in Christ, by whose blood we are purified and redeemed. In these figures of the divine oracles, the bull represents Christ, because with the horns of His cross He scatters the wicked; the lamb, from His matchless innocence; the goat, from His being made in the likeness of sinful flesh, that by sin He might condemn sin. 1 Whatever kind of sacrifice you choose to specify, I will show you a prophecy of Christ in it. Thus we have shown regarding circumcision, and the Sabbath, and the distinction of food, and the sacrifice of animals, that all these things were our examples, and our prophecies, which Christ came not to destroy, but to fulfill, by fulfilling what was thus foretold. Your opponent is the apostle, whose opinion I give in his own words: "All these things were our examples." 2