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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 an
- 2. But this being the case, how to this opinion that should not be contrary
- 3. Possibly thy inquiry is satisfied by this my brief reply.
- 4. |But| say I |in such a slaughter-heap of dead bodies
- 5. Yet it follows not that the bodies of the departed are to be despised
- 6. If this be true, doubtless also the providing for the interment of bodies a
- 7. When therefore the faithful mother of a faithful son departed desired to have his
- 9. And yet, by reason of that affection of the human heart
- 10. This affection the Martyrs of Christ contending for the truth did overcome
- 12. Stories are told of certain appearances or visions
- 13. Such, however, is human infirmity, that when in a dream a person shall see
- 14. Like dreams, moreover, are also some visions of persons awake
- 16. Why should we not believe these to be angelic operations through dispensation of the
- 17. Some man may say: |If there be not in the dead any care for
- 18. So then we must confess that the dead indeed do not know what is
- 19. Hence too is solved that question, how is it that the Martyrs
- 21. Such, we may believe, was that John the Monk
- 22. Which things being so, let us not think that to the dead for whom
- 23. Here, to the things thou hast thought meet to inquire of me
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