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kindness of God, and His boundless riches, hold righteous and sinless the man who, as
Ezekiel329 tells, repents of sins; and reckons sinful, unrighteous, and impious the man who
fails away from piety and righteousness to unrighteousness and ungodliness. Wherefore
also our Lord Jesus Christ said, ‘In whatsoever things I shall take you, in these I shall judge
you.’ ”330
329 Ezek. xxxiii. 11–20.
330 [Comp. St. John xii. 47, 48.] Grabius thinks this taken from the [apocryphal] Gospel according to the
Hebrews. It is not in the New or Old Testament. [Query. Is it not, rather, one of the traditional sayings preserved
among early Christians?]
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Chapter XLVII.—Justin communicates with Christians who observe the law.…