“No one hath so labored that we should be approved, and great, and in all things right-minded, as the God who made us. Wherefore both against our will He befriends us often, and without our knowledge oftener than not. And if thou marvel at what I have said, I point to this as having occurred not to any ordinary person,…”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — HOMILIES ON THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW 25:4-5
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29For the hope of the unthankful shall melt away as the winter’s hoar frost, and shall run away as unprofitable water.
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27For that which was not destroyed of the fire, being warmed with a little sunbeam, soon melted away:
28That it might be known, that we must prevent the sun to give thee thanks, and at the dayspring pray unto thee.