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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.

point to something else.3 It must not be doubted that the statement was made, a fact which the reliability of the writer and the promise of the commentator demand. 3. Hence, They were both naked. It is, then, true that the bodies of the two human beings living in Paradise were completely naked. And they were not ashamed. Why would they be ashamed, since they did not perceive in their members any law at war with the law of their mind?4 That law was rather the penalty for sin, inflicted on them after
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