“The sick are to be admonished to consider how great a boon is bodily affliction, which both washes away committed sins and restrains those which might have been committed, which inflicts on the troubled mind wounds of penitence derived from outward stripes. Whence it is written, "The blueness of a wound cleanseth away…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — The Book of Pastoral Rule, Part 3
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30The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly.
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28Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upholden by mercy.
29The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the grey head.