My Neighbors - Stories of the Welsh People by Caradoc Evans
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repent again?"
"I am not destroying every living thing," God replied. "I am destroying the vile." "Remember Sodom and Gomorrah, Lot's wife and his daughters. They all sinned after their deliverance. The doings of Sodom stayed." Moses also said: "You gave your ear to Jonah from the well of the sea." "I sacrificed my Son for man." "And loosed Satan upon him." "Is scarlet white?" asked God. "Is justice the fruit of injustice? The two men were not of the Church, and the Church may be holy in your sight." "I have judged." "And your judgment is past understanding," said Moses, and he sat at the Balance. The servants of the Lord spoke one with another: "I cannot eat of the supper," said one; "The songs will be as a wolf's howlings in the wilderness," said another; "The honey will be as bittersweet as Adam's apple," said a third. But Satan exclaimed: "Come, let us seek in the Book of the Watchers for an act that will turn Him from His purpose." |
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