think that they are not indebted to God since they cannot estimate the amount owed. (3) Perhaps someone objects, not indeed that those in religion are not debtors, but that the debts of people in the world, whose sins are greater, are much greater. This is like someone saying: ‘I am not guilty, therefore, since someone else is more guilty; I am just, therefore, because the other is unjust; I am especially good, therefore, because the other is particularly bad.’ In the first place, it is unbecoming
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