“"But," say they, "God is `good, 'and `most good, ' and `pitiful-hearted, 'and `a pitier, 'and `abundant in pitiful-heartedness, ' which He holds `dearer than all sacrifice, ' `not thinking the sinner's death of so much worth as his repentance', `a Saviour of all men, most of all of believers.”
Tertullian, 3th c. — On Modesty
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7But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.
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5Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?
6But I say unto you, That in this place is one greater than the temple.
— Matthew 12:7 —
8For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day.
9And when he was departed thence, he went into their synagogue: