“If, because of the sorrows the soul has conceived by its love of the world, we are not yet able to taste how sweet the Lord is, let us at least believe what the divine authority wanted said in the holy Scriptures regarding his Son, "born," as the apostle says, "of the seed of David according to the flesh." In fact, as…”
Augustine of Hippo, 5th c. — CHRISTIAN COMBAT 10:11
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23For God created man to be immortal, and made him to be an image of his own eternity.
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21Such things they did imagine, and were deceived: for their own wickedness hath blinded them.
22As for the mysteries of God, they kn ew them not: neither hoped they for the wages of righteousness, nor discerned a reward for blameless souls.
— Wisdom of Solomon 2:23 —
24Nevertheless through envy of the devil came death into the world: and they that do hold of his side do find it.