From SojoMail:

"If you enroll as one of God's people, heaven is your country and God your lawgiver. And what are God's laws? You shall not kill, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. To him that strikes you on the one cheek, turn to him the other also."

- Clement of Alexandria, an early church father, in Protrepticus, 10

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