“Man was indeed made in the image of God, and as it is written elsewhere, He gave him the power of containing all things: everything was under him, but above him was the One who made all things. Thus, man ought to have regarded those things that were under him, so that he might more regard the One who was above him; fo…”
Augustine of Hippo, 5th c. — Sermon 159B
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2And gave him power to rule all things.
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1She preserved the first formed father of the world, that was created alone, and brought him out of his fall,
— Wisdom of Solomon 10:2 —
3But when the unrighteous went away from her in his anger, he perished also in the fury wherewith he murdered his brother.
4For whose cause the earth being drowned with the flood, wisdom again preserved it, and directed the course of the righteous in a piece of wood of small value.