Catholic Church and its great rival in Africa.
SERMON 214 159
21. See 1 Kgs 2:36-39. 22. It looks as if he takes wisdom to be the speaker, which means he identifies the bride of the Song of Songs as representing the divine wisdom. But wisdom is nearly always identified with Christ, which means with the bridegroom in the Song of Songs. But he may be thinking that the Son, wisdom, is saying this about the Father. His further comment is distinctly opaque.
23. Et eum suspensis aspectibus deducentes. I cannot think what else this could mean. 24. Another opaque sentence: Repressa est multa et diversa continens Humana presumptio. I don't know how presumption can contain anything.
25. That is, in the form of a servant, Phil 2:7. 26. Another densely opaque statement: Unus Pater Deus, unus Filius Deus, unus Spiritus Sanctus Deus. Where to locate subject and predicate is anybody's guess.
27. An elaborate allusion to Augustine's favorite misquotation, from Is 7:9, which in his version ran "Unless you believe, you shall not understand."
28. See Gal 4:26; Rv21:2. 29. Unlike the Donatists. He was pointing out to his catechumens the difference between the Catholic Church and its great rival in Africa.
30. See Lk3:17. 31. See Eph 2:5. 32. See Sermon 213, note 9.