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Rich Travsky wrote:
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> and subjects, are free children.
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> 672. A formal point.--When Saint Peter and the Apostles deliberated about
> abolishing circumcision, where it was a question of acting against the law
> of God, they did not heed the prophets, but simply the reception of the Holy
> Spirit in the persons uncircumcised.
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> They thought it more certain that God approved of those whom He filled with
> His Spirit than it was that the law must be obeyed. They knew that the end
> of the law was only the Holy Spirit; and that thus, as men certainly had
> this without circumcision, it was not necessary.
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> 673. Fac secundum exemplar quod tibi ostensum est in monte.126--The Jewish
> religion then has been formed on its likeness to the truth of the Messiah;
> and the truth of the Messiah has been recognised by the religion, which was
> the type of it.
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> Among the Jews the truth was only typified; in heaven it is revealed.
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> In the Church it is hidden and recognised by its resemblance to the type.
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> The type has been made according to the truth, and the truth has been
> recognised according to the type.
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> Saint Paul says himself that people will forbid to marry, a