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Reply to Faustus the Manichaean

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Your scoff is very inappropriate, when you say that Moses discusses like a glutton what should be eaten, and commands some things to be freely used as clean, and other things as unclean to be not even touched. A glutton makes no distinction, except in choosing the sweetest food. Perhaps you wish to commend to the admiration of the uninitiated the innocence of your abstemious habits, by appearing not to know, or to have forgotten, that swine's flesh tastes better than mutton. But as this too was written by Moses of Christ in figurative prophecy, in which the flesh of animals signifies those who are to be united to the body of Christ, which is the Church, or who are to be cast out, you are typified by the unclean animals; for your disagreement with the Catholic faith shows that you do not ruminate on the word of wisdom, and that you do not divide the hoof, in the sense of making a correct distinction between the Old Testament and the New. But you show still more audacity in adopting the erroneous opinions of your Adimantus.

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Contra Faustum Manichaeum libri triginta tres

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Quid autem dicere voluisti sine respectu iniuriose, quod Moyses helluonis in modum disceptator sedet iubetque alia quidem abligurriri pro mundis, alia vero pro immundis ne contingi quidem, cum ad helluonem hoc magis pertineat, ut nulla discernat, aut, si discernit, suaviora eligat? An hoc ideo dicis, ut imperitis continentia tua velut ab ineunte aetate miranda videatur quasi nescientis vel iam obliti, quanto iucundius sapiat porcina quam vervecina? Sed quia et ista Moyses figuris propheticis de Christo scripsit in animalium carnibus significans homines vel incorporandos Christi corpori, quod est ecclesia, vel respuendos, vos quoque inter immunda figuravit, qui propterea fidei catholicae non convenitis, quia nec ruminatis verbum sapientiae p. 477,20 et duo testamenta, vetus et novum, non concorditer distinguentes tamquam geminam ungulam non habetis. Quis autem ferat te quoque Adimanti vestri fallaciam non puduisse sectari?