ML 32.640): At this same time [when he was writing De bono con-
APPENDIX 1: TESTIMONIA
1. Retractationes 1.17 or 1.18 (CSEL 36.86,13-17 Knoll; ML 32.613): I had not published it [De Genesi ad litteram inperfectus liber] and had decided to destroy it because I had subsequently written a work in twelve books entitled De Genesi ad litteram; and although in that work one will encounter more questions raised than answers found, nevertheless the earlier work cannot be compared in any way with the later one.
2. Retractationes 2.50 or 2.24 (CSEL 36.159,10-160,18 Knoll; ML 32.640): At this same time [when he was writing De bono coniugali and De sancta virginitate| | wrote a commentary on Genesis in twelve books, starting at the beginning and continuing to the place where Adam was driven from Paradise and a flaming sword was set there to guard the way of the tree of life. But when I had written eleven books on the text up to this point, I added a twelfth in which I entered into a more thorough consideration of the question of Paradise. The title of these books is De Genesi ad litteram (The Literal Meaning of Genesis), that is, not according to allegorical meanings but according to the proper historical sense. In this work there are more questions raised than answers found, and of the answers found not many have been established for certain. The others that are not certain have been proposed for further study. I started these books after I had begun my work on The Trinity, but I finished them before I completed that treatise. In this review I have listed these treatises in the order in which I began them.
In Book 5 [5.19.38] and elsewhere in this work [9.16.30, 9.18.35], where I wrote of the offspring to whom the promise had been given, and who had been placed through the angels in the hands of a mediator, | was not faithful to the text of St. Paul, as I later discovered in consulting the better manuscripts, especially those in Greek. The statement made in the text about the Law has