If we are in the right--and I firmly believe that we are--and the Son is of one substance of the Father, he is without spot or blemish; and what can be more divine than to overlook the error of another if it concerns ourselves, or what more meanly human than to take such an error amiss and indulge in a cruel or sanguinary revenge on the erring soul?
Do not misunderstand me.

I, unfortunately--or rather, I say, thank God!--I have done nothing great here on earth, and have never risen to be anything more than a deacon.
But if a boy comes up to me and mistakes me for an acolyte or something of that kind, is that a reason why I should flout or punish him?
Not a bit of it.
"And to my belief our Saviour is too purely divine to hate those who regard Him as only 'God-like.' He is Love.

And when Arius goes to Heaven and sees Jesus Christ in all His divine glory, and falls down before Him in an ecstasy of joy and repentance, the worst the Lord will do to him will be to take him by the ear and say: 'Thou fool! Now thou seest what I really am; but thine errors be forgiven!'" Elizabeth nodded assent.

"Amen," she said, "so be it .-- And so, no doubt, it will be.

Did the Lord cast out the woman taken in adultery?
Did he not give us the parable of the Samaritan ?--Poor little girl! We have often wished for a daughter and now we have found one; a pretty creature she is too.