But I was at a loss as to how else I might conceive of you; human being as I was—and such a human being!—I tried to conceive of you, the supreme and only and true God. [Jn. 17:3] And I believed in the very marrow of my bones that you were incorruptible and inviolable and unchangeable, for although I did {99} not know on what basis or in what way I knew this, I did nevertheless see quite clearly and was certain that what can be corrupted is lower than what cannot, and that I unhesitatingly preferred what could not be violated to what was violable, and that what undergoes no change is better
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