06 March 2009

Patristic Quote of the Day

"We have an Advocate with the Father." He says not, you have; nor says, you have me; nor says, you have Christ Himself: but he puts Christ, not himself, and says, also, “We have,” not, you have. He chose rather to put himself in the number of sinners that he might have Christ for his advocate, than to put himself in Christ's stead as advocate, and to be found among the proud that shall be condemned. -- St. Augustine, Homily on 1 John 1,2

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