“Do we not see how the Israelites got to their own hurt what their guilty lusting craved? For while it was raining manna on them from heaven, they desired to have flesh to eat. (Num. 11:32) They disdained what they had, and shamelessly sought what they had not: as if it were not better for them to have asked not to hav…”
Augustine of Hippo, 5th c. — Tractate on the Gospel of John, 73.1
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2For if we sin, we are thine, knowing thy power: but we will not sin, knowing that we are counted thine.
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1But thou, O God, art gracious and true, longsuffering, and in mercy ordering all things,
— Wisdom of Solomon 15:2 —
3For to know thee is perfect righteousness: yea, to know thy power is the root of immortality.
4For neither did the mischievous invention of men deceive us, nor an image spotted with divers colours, the painter’s fruitless labour;