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Reply to Faustus the Manichaean

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That the whole ark together is finished in a cubit above; as the Church, the body of Christ gathered into unity, is raised to perfection. So Christ says in the Gospel: "He that gathereth not with me, scattereth." ¹ That the entrance is on the side; as no man enters the Church except by the sacrament of the remission of sins which flowed from Christ's opened side. That the lower spaces of the ark are divided into two and three chambers: as the multitude of all nations in the Church is divided into two, as circumcised and uncircumcised; or into three, as descended from the three sons of Noah. And these parts of the ark are called lower, because in this earthly state there is a difference of races, and above we are completed in one. Above there is no diversity; for Christ is all and in all, finishing us, as it were, in one cubit above with heavenly unity.

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Contra Faustum Manichaeum libri triginta tres

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quod arca collecta ad unum cubitum desuper consummatur: sicut ecclesia, corpus Christi, in unitatem collecta sublimat‹ur› et perficit‹ur›. Unde dicit in evangelio: Qui mecum non colligit, spargit; quod aditus ei fit a latere: nemo quippe intrat in ecclesiam nisi per sacramentum remissionis peccatorum; hoc autem de Christi latere aperto manavit; quod inferiora arcae bicamerata et tricamerata construuntur: sicut ex omnibus gentibus vel bipertitam multitudinem congregat ecclesia propter circumcisionem et praeputium, vel tripertitam propter tres filios Noe, quorum progenie repletus est orbis; et ideo arcae inferiora ista dicta sunt, quia in hac terrena vita est diversitas gentium, in summo autem omnes in unum consummamur, et non est ista varietas, quia omnia et in omnibus Christus est tamquam nos uno cubito desuper caelesti unitate consummans; p. 346,11