De Sacrificiis Abelis Et Caini

Why, then, has this hierophant thought fit to introduce him as swearing? That he might demonstrate the weakness of the created being, and after he had demonstrated it, might comfort him: for we are not able at all times to have ready in our soul that principal fact which ought to be remembered concerning God, namely, that "God is not as a man," [*](Numbers xxiii. 19. ) So that we may rise above those assertions which are advanced concerning man;