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Excerpt from Practical Reflections Upon Every Verse of the Book of Genesis These passages imply the need of supernatural assistance to understand the Scriptures rightly. He opened their understanding.' No man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.'2 And they show that the Saviour's own way of expounding the Old Testament was to point out in it 'the things concerning Himself.' This was the way in which 'those wonderful interpreters of Holy Scripture, the ancient Fathers and teachers of the Church, '3 explained it. This was S. Augustine's principle of interpretation: 'the New Testament lies enfolded in the Old, the Old Testafi ment is unfolded in the New.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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