Spiritual Experiences (Buss) n. 575

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575. CONCERNING THOSE WHO AFTER LIFE [IN THE WORLD] STRIVE TO WARM THEMSELVES BY CUTTING GRASS WITH A SAW You may see what was said before concerning wood-cutters [nos. 271-73; 534-36; 549]. There are also those who saw, not wood, but grass, and thereby strive to warm themselves. When it was inquired who they were, it was said that they are those who in life live well morally, do injustice to no-one, and in civil life are reputed good. They also give to the needy and the poor, so they suppose that on that account they merit something. But although they know that our Savior Jesus Christ is "the way", and the only One who is to be adored, because He is the One only Mediator, Man and God, thus the One only Lord, still for all that, they pass Him by, and at heart believe that it is sufficient to acknowledge the One only God, the Creator of the Universe, by whom they thus understand the Father; wherefore they doubt, or rather deny, our Lord, and so spurn His sole mediation. These after death are such that they are cold, and they seek to acquire warmth for themselves by sawing grass into the minutest pieces.


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