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It did indeed, but please not his exact phrase in bold below. It appears that the cliché is a variation of it.

It was St. Augustine in his Letter 211 (A.D. 423), in point number 11:

... If she refuse to submit to this, and does not go away from you of her own accord, let her be expelled from your society. For this is not done cruelly but mercifully, to protect very many from perishing through infection of the plague with which one has been stricken. Moreover, what I have now said in regard to abstaining from wanton looks should be carefully observed, with due love for the persons and hatred of the sin, in observing, forbidding, reporting, proving, and punishing of all other faults. ...

Source: Letters of St. Augustine > Letter 211 (A.D. 423) | New Advent.

It did indeed, though not that exact phrase.

It was St. Augustine in his Letter 211 (A.D. 423), in point number 11:

... If she refuse to submit to this, and does not go away from you of her own accord, let her be expelled from your society. For this is not done cruelly but mercifully, to protect very many from perishing through infection of the plague with which one has been stricken. Moreover, what I have now said in regard to abstaining from wanton looks should be carefully observed, with due love for the persons and hatred of the sin, in observing, forbidding, reporting, proving, and punishing of all other faults. ...

Source: Letters of St. Augustine > Letter 211 (A.D. 423) | New Advent.

It did indeed, but please not his exact phrase in bold below. It appears that the cliché is a variation of it.

It was St. Augustine in his Letter 211 (A.D. 423), in point number 11:

... If she refuse to submit to this, and does not go away from you of her own accord, let her be expelled from your society. For this is not done cruelly but mercifully, to protect very many from perishing through infection of the plague with which one has been stricken. Moreover, what I have now said in regard to abstaining from wanton looks should be carefully observed, with due love for the persons and hatred of the sin, in observing, forbidding, reporting, proving, and punishing of all other faults. ...

Source: Letters of St. Augustine > Letter 211 (A.D. 423) | New Advent

It did indeed, but please not his exact phrase in bold below. It appears that the cliché is a variation of it.

It was St. Augustine in his Letter 211 (A.D. 423), in point number 11:

... If she refuse to submit to this, and does not go away from you of her own accord, let her be expelled from your society. For this is not done cruelly but mercifully, to protect very many from perishing through infection of the plague with which one has been stricken. Moreover, what I have now said in regard to abstaining from wanton looks should be carefully observed, with due love for the persons and hatred of the sin, in observing, forbidding, reporting, proving, and punishing of all other faults. ...

Source: Letters of St. Augustine > Letter 211 (A.D. 423) | New Advent.

It did indeed.

It was St. Augustine in his Letter 211 (A.D. 423), in point number 11:

... If she refuse to submit to this, and does not go away from you of her own accord, let her be expelled from your society. For this is not done cruelly but mercifully, to protect very many from perishing through infection of the plague with which one has been stricken. Moreover, what I have now said in regard to abstaining from wanton looks should be carefully observed, with due love for the persons and hatred of the sin, in observing, forbidding, reporting, proving, and punishing of all other faults. ...

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It did indeed, but please not his exact phrase in bold below. It appears that the cliché is a variation of it.

It was St. Augustine in his Letter 211 (A.D. 423), in point number 11:

... If she refuse to submit to this, and does not go away from you of her own accord, let her be expelled from your society. For this is not done cruelly but mercifully, to protect very many from perishing through infection of the plague with which one has been stricken. Moreover, what I have now said in regard to abstaining from wanton looks should be carefully observed, with due love for the persons and hatred of the sin, in observing, forbidding, reporting, proving, and punishing of all other faults. ...

Source: Letters of St. Augustine > Letter 211 (A.D. 423) | New Advent