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It is not that we keep His commandments first and that then He loves but that He loves us and then we keep His commandments. This is that grace which is revealed to the humble but hidden from the proud.
It is not that we keep His commandments first and that then He loves but that He loves us and then we keep His commandments. This is that grace which is revealed to the humble but hidden from the proud.
Approximate author period: c. 392 AD · classical
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- Augustine of Hippo
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- Approximate author period: c. 392 AD · classical
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