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Greetings.  We are in the Netherlands, where I am teaching a class on Augustine at Tyndale Theological Seminary.  Ran across the following in preparing for class.  Augustine wrote a volume, Answer to an Enemy of the Law and the Prophets.  Some real gems on how to approach the Bible, the nature of language about God, etc., is found in this great piece.  On the rainbow in Genesis, did God need a sign because of a poor memory (i.e., because God needs to be "reminded")? No, says Augustine.  In criticizing the person in error (who would suggest that God perhaps does have a poor memory), Augustine writes:

"The fellow does not know what he is saying at all, not because his memory is dead, but because his soul is dead." (I.20.43).  My!