Romans 12:21
Douay-Rheims
Be not overcome by evil, but overcome evil by good.
Augustine of Hippo
The evil man who is overcome by good is set free, not from an exterior, foreign evil but from an interior, personal one, by which he is more grievously and ruinously laid waste than he would be by the inhumanity of any enemy from without.
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A.D. 430 · on Rom 12:21 (LETTER 138)
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.