“Thou, Lord Jesus, hast redeemed the world in one moment of time: shall Auxentius in one…”
Thou, Lord Jesus, hast redeemed the world in one moment of time: shall Auxentius in one moment slay, as far as he can, so many peoples
Ambrose · Letters, and the funeral orations · NPNF2 X, Letter XXI
From the same refusal to Valentinian. Auxentius was the Arian claimant to Milan; the sentence sets one moment against another and is the closest Ambrose comes to open contempt.
How this is known
These words were matched, word for word, against this project’s own copy of the volume cited.
Read in de Romestin, NPNF series 2 vol. 10 (1896) · H. de Romestin, with E. de Romestin and H. T. F. Duckworth
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