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The glorious Evangelist Luke, taught both by worldly wisdom and by the Holy Spirit, lays very careful emphasis on the fact of the holy Virgin’s supernatural conceiving. For all those who might be troubled in their minds by this, Luke the Evangelist is welcome as a helper to their conscience. Saint Luke was a doctor, first of the body and then later of the Spirit.
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Only the foolish think that suffering is evil. A sensible man knows that suffering is not evil but only the manifestation of evil and healing from evil. Only sin in a man is a real evil, and there is no evil outside sin. Everything else that men generally call evil is not, but is a bitter medicine to heal from evil.

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