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"Men are influenced by big loud empty words, styes which swell the eyelids and impede vision of the truth."
"It should also be remembered that the Bible is written in the language of symbols, a special category of literature designed both to conceal and to reveal spiritual truths. Blindness is a symbol for t…"
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