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For even if we sin we are thine, knowing thy power; but we will not sin, because we know that we are accounted thine.
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For to know thee is complete righteousness, and to know thy power is the root of immortality.
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For neither has the evil intent of human art misled us, nor the fruitless toil of painters, a figure stained with varied colors,
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whose appearance arouses yearning in fools, so that they desire the lifeless form of a dead image.
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Lovers of evil things and fit for such objects of hope are those who either make or desire or worship them.