Yet now, if you will forgive their sin--; and if not, blot me, I pray you, out of your book which you have written.
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Jerome
AD 420
He sought to imitate the shepherd who would, he knew, carry on his shoulders even the wandering sheep. “The good shepherd”—these are the Lord’s own words—“lays down his life for the sheep.” One of his disciples can wish to be anathema from Christ for his brothers’ sake, his kinsmen according to the flesh who were Israelites. If then Paul can desire to perish that the lost may not be lost, how much should good parents not provoke their children to wrath or by too great severity embitter those who are naturally mild.
