That day
Thursday, 28 September 2006
The verse
“For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.”2 Timothy 1:7 · 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.