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On Care to Be Had for the Dead.

1. Long time, my venerable fellow-bishop Paulinus, have I been thy Holiness's debtor for anà

2. But this being the case, how to this opinion that should not be contraryà

3. Possibly thy inquiry is satisfied by this my brief reply.à

4. |But| say I |in such a slaughter-heap of dead bodiesà

5. Yet it follows not that the bodies of the departed are to be despisedà

6. If this be true, doubtless also the providing for the interment of bodies aà

7. When therefore the faithful mother of a faithful son departed desired to have hisà

9. And yet, by reason of that affection of the human heartà

10. This affection the Martyrs of Christ contending for the truth did overcomeà

12. Stories are told of certain appearances or visionsà

13. Such, however, is human infirmity, that when in a dream a person shall seeà

14. Like dreams, moreover, are also some visions of persons awakeà

16. Why should we not believe these to be angelic operations through dispensation of theà

17. Some man may say: |If there be not in the dead any care forà

18. So then we must confess that the dead indeed do not know what isà

19. Hence too is solved that question, how is it that the Martyrsà

21. Such, we may believe, was that John the Monkà

22. Which things being so, let us not think that to the dead for whomà

23. Here, to the things thou hast thought meet to inquire of meà

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