Redemption, n. Deliverance of sinners from the penalty of their sin through their murder of the deity against whom they sinned. The doctrine of Redemption is the fundamental mystery of our holy religions, and whoso believeth in it shall not perish, but have everlasting life in which to try to understand it.
AmbroseAs a servant desireth the approval of his master, and a son the approval of his father, so should we desire the approval of God and our own conscience.
AmbroseIf you are at Rome live in the Roman style; if you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere.
AmbrosePrayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God.
AmbroseStephen prayed for his persecutors, who had not been able even to listen to the Name of Christ, when he said of those very men by whom he was being stoned: "Lord, lay not this sin to their charge" And we see the result of this prayer in the case of the Apostle, for Paul, who kept the garments of those who were stoning Stephen, not long after became an apostle by the grace of God, having before been a persecutor.
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