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33. And when he reads of the sins of great men, although he may be
able to see and to trace out in them a figure of things to come, let
him yet put the literal fact to this use also, to teach him not to dare
to vaunt himself in his own good deeds, and in comparison with his own
righteousness, to despise others as sinners, when he sees in the case
of men so eminent both the storms that are to be avoided and the
shipwrecks that are to be wept over. For the sins of these men were
recorded to this end, that men might everywhere and always tremble at
that saying of the apostle: "Wherefore let him that thinketh he
standeth take heed lest he fall." For there is hardly a page of
Scripture on which it is not clearly written that God resisteth the
proud and giveth grace to the humble.
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