the dead will raise up us also—if we do His will, and walk in His commandments, and love what He loved, keeping ourselves from all unrighteousness. Polycarp (c. 135, E), 1.33. For Abraham was declared by God to be righteous, not on account of circumcision, but on account of faith. Justin Martyr (c. 160, E), 1.245. “Blessed is the man to whom the Lord does not impute sin” [Ps. 32:2]. That is, having repented of his sins, he can receive remission of them from God. But this is not as you [Jews] deceive
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