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St. Augustine
On Christian Doctrine
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BOOK II.
chap. 40. Whatever has been rightly said by the heathen, we must appropriate to our uses
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chap
.
40
.
Whatever
has
been
rightly
said
by
the
heathen
,
we
must
appropriate
to
our
uses
Moreover
,
if
those
who
are
called
philosophers
,
and
especially
the
Platonists
,
have
said
aught
that
is
true
and
in
harmony
with
our
faith
,
we
are
not
only
not
to
shrink
from
it
,
but
to
claim
it
for
our
own
use
from
those
who
have
unlawful
possession
of
it
.
For
,
as
the
Egyptians
had
not
only
the
idols
and
heavy
burdens
which
the
people
of
Israel
hated
and
fled
from
,
but
also
vessels
and
ornaments
of
gold
and
silver
,
and
garments
,
which
the
same
people
when
going
out
of
Egypt
appropriated
to
themselves
,
designing
them
for
a
better
use
,
not
doing
this
on
their
own
authority
,
but
by
the
command
of
God
,
the
Egyptians
themselves
,
in
their
ignorance
,
providing
them
with
things
which
they
themselves
,
were
not
making
a
good
use
of
;
in
the
same
way
all
branches
of
heathen
learning
have
not
only
false
and
superstitious
fancies
and
heavy
burdens
of
unnecessary
toil
,
which
every
one
of
us
,
when
going
out
under
the
leadership
of
Christ
from
the
fellowship
of
the
heathen
,
ought
to
abhor
and
avoid
;
but
they
contain
also
liberal
instruction
which
is
better
adapted
to
the
use
of
the
truth
,
and
some
most
excellent
precepts
of
morality
;
and
some
truths
in
regard
even
to
the
worship
of
the
One
God
are
found
among
them
.
Now
these
are
,
so
to
speak
,
their
gold
and
silver
,
which
they
did
not
create
themselves
,
but
dug
out
of
the
mines
of
God
'
s
providence
which
are
everywhere
scattered
abroad
,
and
are
perversely
and
unlawfully
prostituting
to
the
worship
of
devils
.
These
,
therefore
,
the
Christian
,
when
he
separates
himself
in
spirit
from
the
miserable
fellowship
of
these
men
,
ought
to
take
away
from
them
,
and
to
devote
to
their
proper
use
in
preaching
the
gospel
.
Their
garments
,
also
,
that
is
,
human
institutions
such
as
are
adapted
to
that
intercourse
with
men
which
is
indispensable
in
this
life
,
we
must
take
and
turn
to
a
Christian
use
.
And
what
else
have
many
good
and
faithful
men
among
our
brethren
done
?
Do
we
not
see
with
what
a
quantity
of
gold
and
silver
and
garments
Cyprian
,
that
most
persuasive
teacher
and
most
blessed
martyr
,
was
loaded
when
he
came
out
of
Egypt
?
How
much
Lactantius
brought
with
him
?
And
Victorious
,
and
Optatus
,
and
Hilary
,
not
to
speak
of
living
men
!
How
much
Greeks
out
of
number
have
borrowed
!
And
prior
to
all
these
,
that
most
faithful
servant
of
God
,
Moses
,
had
done
the
same
thing
;
for
of
him
it
is
written
that
he
was
learned
in
all
the
wisdom
of
the
Egyptians
.
And
to
none
of
all
these
would
heathen
superstition
(
especially
in
those
times
when
,
kicking
against
the
yoke
of
Christ
,
it
was
persecuting
the
Christians
)
have
ever
furnished
branches
of
knowledge
it
held
useful
,
if
it
had
suspected
they
were
about
to
turn
them
to
the
use
of
worshipping
the
One
God
,
and
thereby
overturning
the
vain
worship
of
idols
.
But
they
gave
their
gold
and
their
silver
and
their
garments
to
the
people
of
God
as
they
were
going
out
of
Egypt
,
not
knowing
how
the
things
they
gave
would
be
turned
to
the
service
of
Christ
.
For
what
was
done
at
the
time
of
the
exodus
was
no
doubt
a
type
prefiguring
what
happens
now
.
And
this
I
say
without
prejudice
to
any
other
interpretation
that
may
be
as
good
,
or
better
.
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