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Saint Paul Writing His Epistles, Valentin de Boulogne

Galatians 4:14

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Galatians 4:14 (WEB)

That which was a temptation to you in my flesh, you didn’t despise nor reject; but you received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

Catechism · 1

  • §1972Article 1 · The Moral LawRead at vatican.va

    The New Law is called a law of love because it makes us act out of the love infused by the Holy Spirit, rather than from fear; a law of grace, because it confers the strength of grace to act, by means of faith and…

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  • “For men are called Angels: the Apostle saith of himself, “As an angel of God ye received me.”” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 14.

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  • “…“He that hath not been tempted, what manner of things doth he know?” or to another, as the apostle says, “And your temptation in my flesh ye despised not:” for from this circumstance he learnt that they were stedfast, because they were not turned aside from charity by those tribulations which had happened to the…” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 13, 14. The English version renders “my temptation,” but “your temptation” is the reading of the oldest mss.

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