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He therefore set this continuous passage from my earlier work before himself in his second book, although with alterations (Augustine, Marriage and Desire 2.44–49).For he passed over, by design I suppose, my mention of the body’s formation and the soul’s arrival.Reason, the authority of sacred law, and the catholic church all establish that a new soul is created by God in each person.
Hunc ergo de opere meo priore contextum, in hoc secundo libro suo sibi, licet cum interpolatione, proposuit [n27] . Nam et commemoratam a me formationem corporis, et ingressum animae, quam novam in unoquoque a Deo conditam, tam ratio, quam legis sacrae Ecclesiaeque catholicae confirmat auctoritas, ut spero, arte praeteriit.