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Annotation XXXIV, Whether anyone can hate God (Matthew 6:24)

“No one can serve two masters.”

Annotation XXXIV

”No one can serve two masters.” — Matthew 6:24

Whether anyone can hate God. Ps. 73.

Augustine, in the second book On the Lord’s Sermon on the Mount, chapter 22, expounding this, says: “Scarcely anyone’s conscience can hate God.” This same thing he retracted, in the same book and chapter of the Retractations, as contrary to divine Scripture — which says of many, “the pride of those who hate thee.”

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Sixtus of Siena, O.P., “Annotation XXXIV, Whether anyone can hate God (Matthew 6:24),” in Annotations on the New Testament, English translation, Mind of the Church, https://mindofthechurch.com/works/bibliotheca-sancta-nt/035-annotation-xxxiv-whether-anyone-can-hate-god-matthew-6-24/.

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