“Let no one, then, run down the law, as if, on account of the penalty, it were not beautiful and good. Shouldn't he who drives away bodily disease appear as a benefactor? Shouldn't he who attempts to deliver the soul from iniquity even more appear as a friend since the soul is a more precious thing than the body? Besid…”
Clement of Alexandria, 3th c. — The Stromata Book 1
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22Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
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20The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
21For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.