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Ratio mandato tertio subnexa est, quod licet hujus praecepti violatores ab hominibus quandoque nil supplicii ferant, nihilominus tamen Dominus Deus noster eos justum ejus judicium neutiquam patietur subterfugere.
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Ratio mandato tertio subnexa est, quod licet hujus praecepti violatores ab hominibus quandoque nil supplicii ferant, nihilominus tamen Dominus Deus noster eos justum ejus judicium neutiquam patietur subterfugere.
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He suggests that the approval of their allegorising interpretations by St. Thomas Aquinas, merely arose out of St. Thomas's modesty, and his desire not to seem openly to controvert St. Augustin -- "voluisse Divus Thomas pro sua modestia subterfugere vim argumenti potius quam aperte Augustinum inconstantiæ arguere."
Darwiniana : Essays — Volume 02 Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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