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Let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments: and let no flower of the spring pass by us:
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Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds, before they be withered:
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Let none of us go without his part of our voluptuousness: let us leave tokens of our joyfulness in every place: for this is our portion, and our lot is this.
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Let us oppress the poor righteous man, let us not spare the widow, nor reverence the ancient gray hairs of the aged.
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Let our strength be the law of justice: for that which is feeble is found to be nothing worth.
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Therefore let us lie in wait for the righteous; because he is not for our turn, and he is clean contrary to our doings: he upbraideth us with our offending the law, and objecteth to our infamy the transgressings of our education.
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He professeth to have the knowledge of God: and he calleth himself the child of the Lord.
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He is grievous unto us even to behold: for his life is not like other men's, his ways are of another fashion.
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We are esteemed of him as counterfeits: he abstaineth from our ways as from filthiness: he pronounceth the end of the just to be blessed, and maketh his boast that God is his father.
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Let us see if his words be true: and let us prove what shall happen in the end of him.