Quote #4

Nothing is more miserable than those people who never failed to attack their own salvation. When there was need to observe the Law, they trampled it under foot. : On this account Stephen said: 'You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart, you always resist the Holy Spirit', not only by transgressing the Law but also by wishing to observe it at the wrong time.

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