corruptible proceeds from Him, neither darkness, demons, Satan, nor anything adverse can be found in His kingdom.  But that He sent forth a Saviour like Himself; that the Word born from the foundation of the world, when He had formed the world, after the formation of the world came among men; that He has chosen souls worthy of Himself according to His own holy will, sanctified by celestial command, imbued with the faith and reason of celestial things; that under His leadership those souls will return hence again to the kingdom of God according to the holy promise of Him who said:  "I am the way, the truth, and the door;"224 and "No one can come unto the Father, except through me."  These things we believe because otherwise, that is, through another mediator, souls cannot return to the kingdom of God, unless they find Him as the way, the truth, and the door.  For Himself said:  "He that hath seen me, hath seen my Father also;"225 and "whosoever shall have believed on me shall not taste death forever, but has passed from death unto life, and shall not come into judg- ment."226  These things we believe and this is the reason of our faith, and according to the strength of our mind we endeavor to act according to His commandments, following after the one faith of this Trinity, Father and Son and Holy Spirit.227 4.  Augustin said:  What was the cause of those souls being precipitated into death, whom you confess come through Christ from death to life? Fortunatus said:  Hence now deign to go on and to contradict, if there is nothing besides God. 5.  Augustin said:  Nay, do you deign to answer the question put to you:  What cause has given these souls to death? Fortunatus said:  Nay but do you deign to say whether there is anything besides God, or all things are in God. 6.  Augustin said:  This I can reply, that the Lord wished me to know that God cannot suffer any necessity, nor be violated or corrupted in any part.  Which, since you also acknow- ledge, I ask by what necessity He sent hither souls that you say return through Christ? Fortunatus said:  What you have said:  that thus far God has revealed to you, that He is incorruptible, as He has also revealed to me; the reason must be sought, how and wherefore 224 This is, of course, a mixture of two passages of Scripture.—A.H.N. 225 John xiv. 8, 9. 226 John v. 24. 227 As remarked in the Introduction, the Manichæans of the West, in Augustin’s time, sustained a far more intimate relation to Christianity than did Mani and his immediate followers.  Far as Fortunatus may have been from using the above language in the ordinary Christian sense, yet he held, by profession at least, enough of Christian truth to beguile the unwary.—A.H.N. 190 Disputation of the First Day.