Thus says the LORD,
In an acceptable time have I heard you, and in a day of salvation have I helped you: and I will preserve you, and give you for a covenant to the people, to establish the earth, to cause them to inherit the desolate heritages;
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Augustine of Hippo
AD 430
Those who have faith by which they win justification attain by the grace of God to the law of justice. For this reason the prophet says, “In an acceptable time I have heard you, and in a day of salvation I have helped you.”