And they brought it. And he said unto them,
Whose is this image and superscription?
And they said unto him, Caesar's.
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Augustine of Hippo
AD 430
The image of the Emperor appears differently in his son and in a piece of coin. The coin has no knowledge of its bearing the image of the prince. But you are the coin of God, and so far highly superior, as possessing mind and even life, so as to know the One whose image you bear.
