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                <requestName>GetPassage</requestName>
                <requestUrn>urn:cts:latinLit:stoa0238.stoa005.perseus-lat2:3.721-3.740</requestUrn>
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                <urn>urn:cts:latinLit:stoa0238.stoa005.perseus-lat2:3.721-3.740</urn>
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                    <TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><text><body><div xml:lang="lat" type="edition" n="urn:cts:latinLit:stoa0238.stoa005.perseus-lat2"><div type="textpart" n="3" subtype="section"><l n="721">quis cumulare potest epulas in grandia parvas?</l><l n="722">quis, nisi qui corpus pastumque et corporis omnem</l><l n="723">condens ex nihilo nulla existente creavit</l><pb n="p.174"/><l n="724">mundum materia? non sicut sculptor ab aeris</l><l n="725">rudere decoctam consuescit vivere massam, </l><l n="726">sed Deus omnipotens orbem sine semine finxit,</l><l n="727">nil erat omne quod est: nil id procedere et esse</l><l n="728">atque novum fieri, mox et grandescere iussum est.</l><l n="729">parvum de nihilo primum fuit, addita parvo</l><l n="730">incrementa modis auxerunt omnia plenis. </l><l n="731">ergo ego, cum videam manibus sic crescere Christi</l><l n="732">parva alimenta hominum, possum dubitare per ipsum</l><l n="733">exiguas rerum species elementaque mundi</l><l n="734">ex nihilo primum modica et mox grandia sensim</l><l n="735">crevisse, ex modicis quae consummata videmus? </l><l n="736">ac ne post hominum pastus calcata perirent,</l><l n="737">neve relicta lupis aut vulpibus exiguisve</l><l n="738">muribus in praedam nullo custode iacerent,</l><l n="739">bis sex adpositi, cumulatim qui bona Christi</l><l n="740">servarent gravidis procul ostentata canistris. </l></div></div></body></text></TEI>
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