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Herman Witsius Quotes
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“In fine, the law of nature itself was not without a threatening, and that of eternal death.”
“Secondly, by death is here understood, all that lasting and hard labour, that great sorrow, all the tedious miseries of this life, by which life ceases to be life, and which are the sad harbingers of certain death.”
“Peace, indeed, is to be pursued, but by no means at the expense of truth.”
“We shall say no more on this, as we could rather wish to see the orthodox agreeing among themselves than contending with one another.”
“The Romans, having now become believers, were united into one body with believing Israel.”
“And how can men, who dwell in the outermost parts of the earth, come to Jerusalem, to offer sacrifice for every sin, and every pollution, in order to avoid the curse?”
