That day
Saturday, 17 February 2007
The verse
“We love him, because he first loved us.”1 John 4:19 · WEB
From the tradition
“Too late did I love Thee, O Fairness, so ancient, and yet so new! Too late did I love Thee!”
Augustine of Hippo · Confessions, Book X, chapter 27
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.