Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.
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Remigius of Rheims
AD 533
And life is to be taken in this place for the present life, and not for the substance itself of the soul.