Origen on following local laws and the goodwill of evil people

"We would not wish that men who want us to live lives as wicked as theirs should be kindly disposed to no one who chooses the opposite to them. The reason for this is that their goodwill makes us enemies of God, who probably does not become kindly disposed towards those who want to have the goodwill of men of that sort." (Con. Cel. VIII,27)

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