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  CONFESSIONS - BOOK III - CHAPTER VII
  by St. Augustine
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12. For I was ignorant of that other reality, true Being. And so it was
that I was subtly persuaded to agree with these foolish deceivers when
they put their questions to me: \"Whence comes evil?\" and, \"Is God
limited by a bodily shape, and has he hairs and nails?\" and, \"Are
those patriarchs to be esteemed righteous who had many wives at one
time, and who killed men and who sacrificed living creatures?\" In my
ignorance I was much disturbed over these things and, though I was
retreating from the truth, I appeared to myself to be going toward it,
because I did not yet know that evil was nothing but a privation of good
(that, indeed, it has no being)[73]; and how should I have seen this
when the sight of my eyes went no farther than physical objects, and the
sight of my mind reached no farther than to fantasms? And I did not know
that God is a spirit who has no parts extended in length and breadth,
whose being has no mass--for every mass is less in a part than in a
whole--and if it be an infinite mass it must be less in such parts as
are limited by a certain space than in its infinity. It cannot therefore
be wholly everywhere as Spirit is, as God is. And I was entirely
ignorant as to what is that principle within us by which we are like
God, and which is rightly said in Scripture to be made \"after God\\

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