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11. Again, the same words often have a different meaning. For instance, we call God good and a man good; but it bears in each case quite a different meaning. Cic. de Off. III. 4, § 16. We call God just in one sense, man in another. So, too, there is a difference in meaning when we call God wise and a man wise. This we are taught in the Gospel: “Be ye perfect even as your Father Who is in heaven is perfect.” S. Matt. v. 48. I read again that Paul was perfect and yet not perfect. For when he said: “Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect; but I follow after, if that I may apprehend it.” Phil. iii. 12. Immediately he added: “We, then, that are perfect.” Phil. iii. 15. There is a twofold form of perfection, the one having but ordinary, the other the highest worth. The one availing here, the other hereafter. The one in accordance with human powers, the other with the perfection of the world to come. But God is just through all, wise above all, perfect in all.

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