Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers — Second Series Vol. 06 — Section 1158
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Work: Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers — Second Series Volume 6
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Second Series Vol. 6
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12. My design in recounting these events has been to sketch for you the picture of your evil life and to set your misdeeds plainly before your eyes. I have wished to prevent you from making God's mercy and His abundant tenderness an excuse for committing new sins and to save you from crucifying to yourself the son of God afresh and putting Him to an open shame. For you may do these things if you do not read the words which follow the passage to which I have alluded. They are these: "The earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by …
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