Thus says the LORD;
Cursed be the man that trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from the LORD.
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Augustine of Hippo
AD 430
People who despise being in need before God, lest they receive true perseverance from him, glory in their own false endurance and seek to “confound the counsel of the poor, because the Lord is his hope.” Nor do they regard, seeing they are human and attribute so much to their own, that is, to the human will, that they run into that which is written, “Cursed is everyone who puts his hope in humankind.”
