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[64] _De moribus Ecclesiae_, 21; _Confessions_, v. 7; x. 54-57.

[65] See Harnack, _Dogmengeschichte_, iii. 14 _sqq._; Taylor, _Classical Heritage_, p. 117 _sqq._

[66] _Civ. Dei_, ix. 21, 22; cf. _Civ. Dei_, xvi. 6-9.

[67] _Civ. Dei_, book xii., affords a discussion of such questions, _e.g._ why was man created when he was, and not before or afterwards. All these matters entered into the discussions of the mediaeval philosophers, Thomas Aquinas, for example.

Besides these dogmatic treatises, in which Scriptural texts were called upon at least for confirmation, the Fathers, Greek and Latin, composed an enormous mass of Biblical commentary, chiefly allegorical, following the chapter and verse of the canonical writings.

[68] See _ante_, Chapter III .

[69] See _post_,