That day
Sunday, 17 September 2006
The verse
“But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”Romans 5:8 · WEB
From the tradition
“Give what Thou commandest, and command what Thou wilt.”
Augustine of Hippo · Confessions, Book X, chapter 29
In the words of a public-domain translation (tr. J. G. Pilkington, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, vol. 1, ed. Philip Schaff (1886)), checked against the source edition.