“But notwithstanding this rightful knitting and this endless oneing, yet the redemption and the again-buying of mankind is needful and speedful in everything, as it is done for the same intent and to the same end that Holy Church in our Faith us teacheth.”
Summations, Chapter 53
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A Gilgul fun a Nign, 1901. Alle Verk, vi. 33.
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As quoted in The Political Thought of Adlai E. Stevenson (1955) by William Robert Latimer, p. 89