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No, like the hull of a ship, which is loaded with many
useful things, so the Word of God is loaded with reason and
understanding. Let us therefore examine the Word and
find, one by one, the points of true interpretation.
Wherefore should the sword remain in his place and he who
takes the sword perish with the sword? This is for us to
consider under three heads:
“Firstly, man is a wisely and beyond all measure
gloriously fashioned microcosm, or as it may be interpreted,
a small earth, a world of good and evil. For does not the
Apostle James say that the tongue alone is a world of
iniquity among our members? How much more then the
whole body—the lustful eyes, the hastening feet, the
covetous hands, the insatiable belly, but even so the prayerful
knees, and the ears quick to hear! And if the body is a
world, how much more, then, our precious and immortal
soul! Ay, it is a garden full of sweet and bitter herbs, full
of evil lusts like ravening beasts and virtues like white
lambs. And is he who lays waste such a world to be
regarded as better than an incendiary, a brawler, or a
field-robber? And ye know what punishment is meted out to
such as these.”
Darkness had fallen, and the crowd around the preacher
appeared only as a large, dark, slowly shifting and growing
mass.
“Secondly, man is a microtheos, that is a mirror and
image of the Almighty God. Is not he who lays hands on
the image of God to be regarded as worse than he who
merely steals the holy vessels or vestments of the church or
who profanes the sanctuary? And ye know what
punishment is meted out to such a one.
“Thirdly and lastly, it is the first duty of man to do
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