A.E. Housman (1859–1936) English classical scholar and poet
No. 12, l. 1-4. <br class="br"> Last Poems http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/8lspm10.txt (1922)
“It was the error of Israel to put the law in God’s place, to make the law their God and their God a law.”
Source: Discipleship (1937), The Righteousness of Christ, p. 122.
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