The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
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Clement Of Rome
AD 99
For it is indeed a great and admirable thing to establish, not the things which are standing, but these that are falling. Thus also did Christ desire