WIST Quotations moves again!A quotation from Augustine of Hippo:
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Now Scripture enjoins nothing except charity, and condemns nothing except lust, and in that way fashions the lives of men.
[Non autem praecipit Scriptura nisi caritatem, nec culpat nisi cupiditatem, et eo modo informat mores hominum.]
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On Christian Doctrine [De Doctrina Christiana], Book 3, ch. 10 / § 15 (3.10.15) (AD 397) [tr. Shaw (1858)] - Augustine of Hippo | WIST Quotations
Now Scripture enjoins nothing except charity, and condemns nothing except lust, and in that way fashions the lives of men. [Non autem praecipit Scriptura nisi caritatem, nec culpat nisi cupiditatem, et eo modo informat mores hominum.] On how people treat Scripture as literal when it agrees with their and their…
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