For he was joined to Him by participation in all good things, to live eternally if he had persevered in the integrity which he had received. But he did not remain there long. For by his ingratitude he quickly made himself unworthy of all the benefits which God had given him. So he erased the heavenly image which he bore, and since he was alienated from God by sin, he was likewise excluded from the communion of all the goods which can not be had anywhere except in Him. For this reason, in place of wisdom, power, holiness, truth, righteousness, with which he had been clothed in the likeness of
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