{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/105/1050277.htm","path":"chr/ecf/105/1050277.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/105/1050277.htm","text":"Chapter 30 [XXVII.]\u2014Sin is Removed by Sin.\nHe no doubt shows some acuteness in handling, and turning over and exposing, as he likes, and refuting a certain statement, which is made to this effect, that \u201cit was really necessary to man, in order to take from him all occasion for pride and boasting, that he should be unable to exist without sin.\u201d He supposes it to be \u201cthe height of absurdity and folly, that there should have been sin in order that sin might not be; inasmuch as pride is itself, of course, a sin.\u201d As if a sore were not attended with pain, and an operation did not produce pain, that pain might be taken away by pain. If we had not experienced any such treatment, but were only to hear about it in some parts of the world where these things had never happened, we might perhaps use this man\u2019s words, and say, It is the height of absurdity that pain should have been necessary in order that a sore should have no pain.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. V: A Treatise on Nat...","type":"page"}