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He is become a censurer of our thoughts.
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He is grievous unto us, even to behold: for his life is not like other men's, and his ways are very different.
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We are esteemed by him as triflers, and he abstaineth from our ways as from filthiness, and he preferreth the latter end of the just, and glorieth that he hath God for his father.
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Let us see then if his words be true, and let us prove what shall happen to him, and we shall know what his end shall be.
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For if he be the true son of God, he will defend him, and will deliver him from the hands of his enemies.
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Let us examine him by outrages and tortures, that we may know his meekness and try his patience.
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Let us condemn him to a most shameful death: for there shall be respect had unto him by his words.
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These things they thought, and were deceived: for their own malice blinded them.
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And they knew not the secrets of God, nor hoped for the wages of justice, nor esteemed the honour of holy souls.
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For God created man incorruptible, and to the image of his own likeness he made him.
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But by the envy of the devil, death came into the world: