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Chapter
XX.—False Theories of Philosophers.
“And some of those amongst them who even
profess to be philosophers, assert that such sins are indifferent, and
say that those who are indignant at such practices are
senseless.1042
| 1042 [Compare the
argument against the philosophers, as put in the mouth of the Apostle,
in Recognitions, x. 48–50.—R.] | For they say
that such things are not sins by nature, but have been proscribed by
laws made by wise men in early times, through their knowing that men,
through the instability of their minds, being greatly agitated on these
accounts, wage war with one another; for which reason, wise men have
made laws to proscribe such things as sins. But this is a
ridiculous supposition. For how can they be other than sins,
which are the cause of tumults, and murders, and every confusion?
For do not shortcomings of life1043
| 1043 The Vatican
ms. inserts here, “upturning of houses,
magic practices, deceptions, perplexities.” | and many
more evils proceed from adultery?
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