Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time;
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Shepherd of Hermas
AD 150
For luxury and deceit have no memories, on account of the folly with which they are clothed; but when punishment and torture cleave to a man for one day, he is punished and tortured for a year; for punishment and torture have powerful memories. While tortured and punished, therefore, for a whole year, he remembers at last.
