“There was a certain philosophy among the ancients that troubles came from sin because they were confident that God was not responsible for any evil. The notion that people suffer as an exercise so that they might perceive the power of God at last—this was not well known at all because they would rather have God give g…”
Apollinaris of Laodicea, 4th c. — FRAGMENTS ON JOHN 49
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2And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?
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1And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth.
— John 9:2 —
3Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.
4I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.