grace-and-human-response

I do not doubt that if one of those wrongly religious people—impatient with superstition—touches this work asserting the one Maker and Ruler, he will attack it with curses, and scarcely having read the beginning will cast it away and think himself stained if he reads or hears patiently.

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Of all these evils the source was greed, which clearly burst forth from contempt of the true majesty: they not only did not share with others what flowed to them, but also seized others’ goods, dragging everything into private gain.

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