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For to know Thee is perfect righteousness; yea, to know Thy power is the root of immortality.
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For neither did the evil invention of men deceive us, nor an image spotted with divers colors, the painter's fruitless labor,
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the sight whereof enticeth fools to lust after it; and so they desire the form of a dead image, that hath no breath.
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Both they that make them, they that desire them, and they that worship them, are lovers of evil things, and are worthy to have such things to trust upon.
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For the potter, tempering soft earth, fashioneth every vessel with much labor for our service; yea, of the same clay he maketh both the vessels that serve for clean uses, and likewise also all such as serve to the contrary; but what is the use of either sort the potter himself is the judge.