and the pilot? And what sick person can be healed, unless first he trust himself to the care of the physician? And what art or knowledge can any one learn, unless he first apply and entrust himself to the teacher? If, then, the farmer trusts the earth, and the sailor the boat, and the sick the physician, will you not place confidence in God, even when you hold so many and such great pledges from His hand? TO AUTOLYCUS, Bk. 1, Chap. 7 MG 6, 1036 ANF II, 91 ORIGEN 12 (514) And why should it not be
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