Spiritual Experiences-Word Exp. n. 327

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327. * since they are for the most part unbelievable, it is better to pass by, than to record, matters that evade belief. There are, indeed, those who want to become righteousness, equal to the Messiah. That is why this wicked ritual of sacrificing their own children to Molech also became prevalent on earth, even if it was done in a different way. These spirits, then, are meant by the man to whom the person who sanctifies [his field] sells himself. [Gods; Righteousness] * For in this way he entirely deprives himself of those things which are in it, that is, which are meant in the spiritual sense by the sowing, so that they can never again become his. Therefore we read that "it shall not be redeemed anymore."


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