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Corpus 201 (D) p. 23b
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D55.04.91 Teach Christian people eagerly and heal them and remember that the physician who must heal evil wounds well (he) must have a good salve for that. Nor are there any wounds so evil as the wounds of sin, for through them a man perishes in eternal death unless through confession, cessation (from sin), and repentance he becomes healed.

D55.05.91 Then the physcian who must heal the wounds ought to be wise and careful. One must first cure him (lit. them) through good teaching and with it do so that he vomits the poison that is within him,
 
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