For I say unto you, you shall not see me again, till you shall say, Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.
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Augustine of Hippo
AD 430
Quaest. Ev., i, 36: This species has the greatest affection for its brood, insomuch that when they are sick the mother sickens also; and what you will hardly find in any other animal, it will fight against the kite, protecting its young with its wings. In like manner our mother, the Wisdom of God, sickened asit were in the putting on the flesh, according to that of the Apostle, “The weakness of God is stronger than men,” protects our weakness, and resists the Devil that he should not make us his prey.
Euch. 97:. Where is that omnipotence, by the which He did whatsoever pleased Him both in heaven and in earth, if He would have gathered the children of Jerusalem and did not? Was it not that she would not that her children should be gathered by Him, and yet He did, notwithstanding, gather those of her children whom He would?
