Withhold not correction from the child: for if you beat him with a rod, he shall not die.
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Augustine of Hippo
AD 430
If the evil will is always to be left to its own freedom, why are careless shepherds rebuked, and why is it said to them, “The wandering sheep you have not called back, that which was lost you have not sought”? Letter