And when many people were gathered together, and were come to him out of every city, he spoke by a parable:
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Gregory the Theologian
AD 390
When you hear this you must not entertain the notion of different natures, as certain heretics do, who think that some men indeed are of a perishing nature, others of a saving nature, but that some are so constituted that their will leads them to better or worse. But add to the words, To you itis given, if willing and truly worthy.