Be you therefore perfect, even as your Father who is in heaven is perfect.
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Rabanus Maurus
AD 856
If then sinners be led by nature to show kindness to those that love them, with how much greater show of affection ought you not to embrace even those that donot love you?.
Ethnici, that is, the Gentiles, for the Greek word is translated ‘gens’in Latin; those, that is, who abide such as they were born, to wit, under sin.