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In the autumn of AD 388, St. Augustine returned from Italy to northern Africa. Here in his native Thagaste he assembled a monastic community. When the brethren found their leader Augustine in a rare moment of leisure, they had no misgivings about putting questions to him on a variety of topics which he answered from the store of his vast knowledge. These questions together with the answers were...

ourselves be coheirs with him unless he himself is an heir too. If, however, soundness of faith15 does not allow that the Lord’s Man16 possessed first of all a partial vision, then a full vision (although he was said to have increased in wisdom), then he should be understood to be an heir in his body, i.e., the Church, of which we are coheirs, in the same way that we are said to be sons of this Mother, although we ourselves are its component parts.17 (3) But again it can be asked by whose death
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