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Sometimes thought of as a “Second Augustine” (“alter Ausgustinus”), Hugh of St. Victor (c. 1096–1141) taught at the Augustinian Abbey of Saint Victor in Paris after which he is named. His numerous theological works and commentaries on Augustine were highly regarded, and the hundreds of original works that have survived in libraries all across Europe today reflect how popular and influential they...

own, but the things that are Jesus Christ’s” (Phil. 2:21). The spiritual is thus more noble than the natural relationship. That of nature gradually weakens, the spiritual is ever growing; the natural tends to division, the spiritual to union; the natural passes away with this world, the spiritual abides even in the world to come. The reason of our living now together in this house is that hereafter we may continue together in the heavenly kingdom. “We are now the sons of God,” says the beloved apostle,
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