“For God loves to save and not to condemn; therefore is he patient with evil, that out of evil good may be brought.”

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Non enim amat Deus damnare sed salvare, et ideo patiens est in malos, ut de malis faciat bonos.

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early Christian theologian and philosopher 354–430

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