““St. Polycarp (+about 155), who was a personal dis ciple of St. John the Evangelist, admonishes priests to be merciful to sinners. " The presbyters," he says, " should be compassionate, merciful to all, bringing back those that have gone astray, . . . refraining from unjust judgment, . . . knowing that we all owe the debt of sin. If then we pray the Lord to forgive us, we also ought to forgive, for we stand before the eyes of the Lord and of God, and we must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ, and each must give an account of himself." 41””
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![“St. Bruno of Asti, who says: " The first tabernacle, therefore, is the Synagogue; the second, the Church; the third, Heaven. . . . The first was in a shadow and an image, the second is in an image and in truth, and the third [will be] in the truth alone. In the first, life is foreshadowed; in the…” quote by Joseph Pohle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7d8/joseph-pohle-3769_life_st-bruno-of-asti-who-says-the-first-tabe_36723.jpg)
