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“Estas palabras muestran precisamente cómo ha de entenderse el término “vigilancia”. No es un salir del presente, un especular sobre el futuro, un olvidar el cometido actual; muy al contrario, vigilancia significa hacer aquí y ahora lo que es justo, tal como se debería obrar ante los ojos de Dios".”

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