Augustine of Hippo, on 1Cor 9:22

“To the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak. I became all things to all men, that I might save all.”

“This is correctly interpreted to mean that he, not by lying but by sympathy, brought it about that he enabled their con-version by his own great love which made it seem as though he himself were afflicted with that evil of which he wished to heal them.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.