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The same. — 'And a very great household.' 25. The foolish of the world called before the wise. — What is it, that first the multitude of animals is described, and the household is mentioned last: save that unto the knowledge of the faith the foolish of the world were first gathered, that afterwards its shrewd ones too might be called, Paul attesting, who says: 'Not many wise after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble; but the foolish things of the world hath God chosen, that He may confound the wise' (1 Cor. i, 27)? For the very beginnings of the holy Church are recorded to be ignorant of letters, that clearly the Redeemer might show, in all His preachers, that not speech but His own cause persuaded the believing peoples unto life. There follows: