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Answer to Faustus, a Manichean (Contra Faustum Manichaeum) is unavailable, but you can change that!

Written probably at the very end of the fourth century, the Answer responds to a certain Faustus, a Manichean bishop, who objects to the Old Testament and questions how Christians can claim it for themselves. Augustine’s Answer to Faustus, a Manichean is the most extensive attack on the Manichean religion that the early Church produced. Since Augustine himself had been associated with...

and those from whom Christ is descended according to the flesh, who is God above all, blessed forever (Rom 9:4–5). Likewise he says, And we groan in ourselves, as we await the adoption of the children of God, the redemption of our body (Rom 8:23). Likewise he says elsewhere, But when the fullness of time came, he sent his Son born of a woman, born under the law, in order to redeem those who were under the law so that we might receive adoption as his children (Gal 4:4–5). From these and other such
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