“As severity is ready to punish the faults which it may discover, so charity is reluctant…”
As severity is ready to punish the faults which it may discover, so charity is reluctant to discover the faults which it must punish.
Augustine of Hippo · Letters · NPNF1 I, Letters, Letter CCXI (to the nuns of Hippo), 1
The first sentence of the letter to the convent his sister had led, explaining why he had stayed away while they quarrelled: he did not want to see what he would then have had to punish.
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These words were matched, word for word, against this project’s own copy of the volume cited.
The project holds the volume this row cites, NPNF series 1 vol. 1, and the build matches these words against its bytes at every rebuild. Letter CCXI is the letter the locator names.
Read in Cunningham, NPNF series 1 vol. 1 (1886) · J. G. Cunningham, M.A.
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