Hearken now unto my voice, I will give you counsel, and God shall be with you: Represent the people before God, that you may bring the causes unto God:
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Augustine of Hippo
AD 430
God spoke to Moses, did he not? Yet Moses very prudently and humbly yielded to the advice of his fatherinlaw, foreigner though he was, with regard to governing and directing such a mighty nation. For he realized that from whatever intellect right counsel proceeded, it should be attributed not to him who conceived it but to the One who is the Truth, the immutable God. On Christian Teaching, Prologue
