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BUT why should we spend any more time over evangelic and apostolic
precepts, when even the old law, which is thought to be somewhat slack,
guards against the same thing, when it says, "Thou shall not hate thy
brother in thine heart;" and again, "Be not mindful of the injury of thy
citizens;" and again, "The ways of those who preserve the recollection
of wrongs are towards death"? You see there too that wickedness is
restrained not only in action, but also in the secret thoughts, since it is
commanded that hatred be utterly rooted out from the heart, and not merely
retaliation for, but the very recollection of, a wrong done.
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