So then, when I speak to you, I speak to myself. If I seem to warn or to rebuke you, it is not so much you, as myself, to whom the warning or the rebuke is addressed.
Joseph Barber LightfootAbout author
- Author's profession: Theologian
- Nationality: english
- Born: April 13, 1828
- Died: December 21, 1889
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