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88 THE FIKST AND THE SECOND MAN.and its announcement and proclamation, that is,the law of the King of Truth declared by Hisheralds. " We speculate," says S. Augustine,u that we may attain to vision ; yet even themost studious speculation would. fall into errorunless the Lord inhabited the Church herself thatnow is."-1 And again : " In earthly possessionsa benefit is given to the proprietor when he isgiven possession; not so is the possession whichis the Church. The benefit here lies in beingpossessed by such a one."-" Christ's Body isboth Temple and House and City, and He who isHead of the Body is Inhabiter of the House, andSanctifier of the Temple, and King of the City.What can we say more acceptable to Him thanthis, Possess us ?"223. Again, to take another image, which is thegreatest of realities. What a wonderful productionof divine skill is the structure of the humanbody! Even its outward beauty is such as tosway our feelings with a force which reason hasat times a hard combat to overcome, so keen isthe delight which it conveys. But the inward distributionof its parts is so marvellous that thosewho have spent their lives in the study of itsanatomy can find in a single member, for instance,in the hand, enough out of which to fill a volumewith the wise adaptation of means to ends which21 S. Aug. in Ps. ix. torn. iv. 51.22 Ibid, in Ps. cxxxi. torn. iv. 1473.