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Contre Fauste, le manichéen

LIVRE DIX-SEPTIÈME. LA LOI ET LES PROPHÈTES EN FACE DU CHRIST.

Explication de ce texte de saint Matthieu : « Je ne suis pas venu abolir la loi et les Prophètes, mais les accomplir ».

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Reply to Faustus the Manichaean

Book XVII.

Faustus rejects Christ's declaration that He came not to destroy the law and the prophets but to fulfill them, on the ground that it is found only in Matthew, who was not present when the words purport to have been spoken. Augustin rebukes the folly of refusing to believe Matthew and yet believing Manichaeus, and shows what the passage of scripture really means.