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Genesis 3:21 (WEB)
The LORD God made garments of animal skins for Adam and for his wife, and clothed them.

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§1608Article 7 · The Sacrament of MatrimonyRead at vatican.va
“To heal the wounds of sin, man and woman need the help of the grace that God in his infinite mercy never refuses them.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Gen 3:21.

Ambrose of Milan, Concerning Repentance II.11Book II
“At once the fallen were severed from all their enjoyments that they might do penance; at once God clothed them with garments of skins, not of silk.” — editor's note: Gen. iii. 21, 24.
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Augustine of Hippo, Confessions VII.18Book VII
“…that they might go on no further in self-confidence, but rather should become weak, seeing before their feet the Divinity weak by taking our “coats of skins;” and wearied, might cast themselves down upon It, and It rising, might lift them up.” — editor's note: Gen. iii. 21. Augustin frequently makes these “coats of skin” symbolize the mortality to which our first parents became subject by being deprived of the tree…
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Augustine of Hippo, Confessions XIII.15Book XIII
“And Thou knowest, O Lord, Thou knowest, how Thou with skins didst clothe men when by sin they became mortal.” — editor's note: Gen. iii. 21. Skins he makes the emblems of mortality, as being taken from dead animals. See p. 112, note 8, above.
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Augustine of Hippo, On the Holy Trinity XII.11Book XII
“Hence it is that being naked of their first garment, they earned by mortality coats of skins.” — editor's note: Gen. iii. 21
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Gregory of Nyssa, Funeral Oration on Meletius
“He has put away the coats of skin; no need is there now for the dwellers in paradise of such garments as these; but he wears the raiment which the purity of his life has woven into a glorious dress.” — editor's note: Gen. iii. 21.
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Jerome, Letters Letter 51
“I pass over his idle explanation of the coats of skins, and say nothing of the efforts and arguments he has used to induce us to believe that these coats of skins represent human bodies.” — editor's note: In his note on Gen. iii. 21.
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Jerome, Letters Letter 128
“Is any called being circumcised,”—that is, as a virgin?—“let him not become uncircumcised”—that is, let him not seek the coat of marriage given to Adam on his expulsion from the paradise of virginity.” — editor's note: Gen. iii. 21.
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Tertullian, On the Pallium Chapter 3
“Then and there hastening to forecover what, in his newly made body, it was not yet due to modesty (to forecover), he surrounds himself meantime with fig-leaves: subsequently, on being driven from the confines of his birthplace because he had sinned, he went, skinclad, to the world as to a mine.” — editor's note: i.e., a place which he was to work, as condemned criminals worked mines. Comp. de Pu., c. xxii. sub init.; and see Gen. ii. 25 (in LXX. iii. 1), iii. 7, 21–24.
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Gregory of Nazianzus, Orations Oration 2
“This is why the heathen rage and the peoples imagine vain things; why tree is set over against tree, hands against hand, the one stretched out in self indulgence, the others in generosity; the one unrestrained, the others fixed by nails, the one expelling Adam, the other reconciling the ends of the earth.” — editor's note: Gen. iii. 6–23.
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Clement of Alexandria, The Stromata, or Miscellanies Book 3
““Pelliceas” autem “tunicas” existimat Cassianus esse corpora: in quo postea et eum, et qui idem cum eo sentiunt, aberrasse ostendemus, cure de ortu hominis, iis consequenter, quæ prius dicenda sunt, aggrediemur expositionem.” — editor's note: Gen. iii. 21.
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