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Then it was that, broken in spirit, he began to lose much of his arrogance and to come to his senses under the scourge of God, for he was tortured with pain every moment.
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And when he could not endure his own stench, he uttered these words: "It is right to be subject to God, and no mortal should think that he is equal to God."
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Then the abominable fellow made a vow to the Lord, who would no longer have mercy on him, stating
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that the holy city, which he was hastening to level to the ground and to make a cemetery, he was now declaring to be free;
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and the Jews, whom he had not considered worth burying but had planned to throw out with their children to the beasts, for the birds to pick, he would make, all of them, equal to citizens of Athens;
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