For when you were the servants of sin, you were free from righteousness.
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Prosper of Aquitaine
AD 455
He who serves the devil is free from God, but he who being freed serves God is free from the devil. As a result it is apparent that a false liberty could have been had from a defect of the human will but that a true liberty could not have been received without the help of the liberator.