CONTRA FATUM

"By way of antithesis to sensible things, the scripture usually calls intelligible things spirit and spiritual." (Con. Cel. VI,70)

”[...]if we want to know what righteousness is, it is essential for us to know what unrighteous is; and when we have arrived at a complete knowledge of unrighteousness, on that basis we shall recognize what righteousness is as well; for when it becomes clear what is unjust, as a consequence, what is just will become visible as well. And because righteousness is in God, whose nature is inaccessible to human perception, but unrighteousness dwells in us men, in fact in all rational creatures, from our unrighteousness, which is known to us, the righteousness of God, which is, as it were, inaccessible and incomprehensible to us, is recognized and confirmed and produced as if from the opposition of opposites.” (In Rom. 3.1.7)

"the created and uncreate are as diametrically opposed to each other as their names are" CE 1.1.52?, p. 81)

“[...]how the Word becomes flesh; how life is mingled with death; how by his own stripe our calamity is healed; how by the weakness of the cross the power of the Adversary was overthrown; how the invisible was revealed in the flesh; how he redeemed the captives, being himself both the purchaser and the price (for he gave himself as a ransom to death on our account); how he died and did not depart from life; how he shared in the condition of a slave and remained in his kingly state.” (Songs, GNO VI, 255-256, ch. 8, p. 269)