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Reply to Faustus the Manichaean

Book XXVII.

Faustus warns against pressing too far the argument, that if Jesus was not born He cannot have suffered. Augustin accepts the birth and death alike on the testimony of the Gospel narrative, which is higher authority than the falsehood of Manichaeus.

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Contre Fauste, le manichéen

LIVRE VINGT-SEPTIÈME.

Jésus est né et mort comme il l'a voulu. — L'Evangile est plus croyable là-dessus que Manés.