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St. Augustine: The Literal Meaning of Genesis, Volume II is unavailable, but you can change that!

A thorough and profound commentary on the first three chapters of Genesis. Completed in AD 415, Augustine’s explains, what the author of Genesis intended to say about what God did when he created heaven and earth. Contains Books 7–12.

internally under God, who is the cause of all health by that double operation of His providence about which I have spoken above.64 Man, therefore, must not turn to God in such a way that once being made just by Him he may depart, but rather that he may always be receiving justification from his Creator. When man does not depart from God, by this very fact, since God is present to him, he is justified, illuminated, and made happy, and God is cultivating and guarding him while he is obedient and subject
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