On the Merits and Forgiveness of Sins

11 March 2025

See how Job, too, confesses his sins, and says how sure he is that there is none righteous before the Lord.  He is also sure of this, that 'if we say we have no sin...the truth is not in us.'  While, therefore, God bestows on him His high testimony of righteousness, according to the standard of human conduct, Job himself took his measure from that rule of righteousness, which, as well as he can, he beholds in God.  Knowing this is true, he goes on to say, 'How will a mortal be just before the Lord?'

        St. Augustine

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