Hosea 7:12 (WEB)
When they go, I will spread my net on them. I will bring them down like the birds of the sky. I will chastise them, as their congregation has heard.
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- John Cassian, Conferences I–X VI.11Conference VI
“But of others, whose heart has not grown hard by continuance in sin, and who do not stand in need of that most severe and (if I may so call it) caustic remedy, but for whose salvation the instruction of the life-giving word is sufficient—of them it is said: “I will improve them by hearing of their suffering.”” — editor's note: Hos. vii. 12 (LXX.).
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