To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
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Augustine of Hippo
AD 430
This is correctly interpreted to mean that he, not by lying but by sympathy, brought it about that he enabled their con version by his own great love which made it seem as though he himself were afflicted with that evil of which he wished to heal them.
