Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 911

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911. Moreover, because these had not acquired their money and wealth by deception or by any indiscriminate means, fair or foul, inwardly within that lamentation that they are nothing and that they are to be pitied lies something good into which later, after some time, those sayings on account of the robbers that they are nothing and are to be pitied, are gradually changed. Afterwards, when they forget the robbers and the money, they only fear spiritual robbers, and acknowledge themselves to be nothing because they can do nothing in their own defense. Then also they cry out, that the Lord may have pity on them. Thus insanity is turned into this kind of quality. 1748, 21 February.


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