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22. And I discerned and found it no marvel, that bread which is
distasteful to an unhealthy palate is pleasant to a healthy one; and
that the light, which is painful to sore eyes, is delightful ' to
sound ones. And Thy righteousness displeaseth the wicked; much more
the viper and: little worm, which Thou hast created good, ' fitting
in with inferior parts of Thy creation;. with which the wicked
themselves also fit in, the more in proportion as they are unlike
Thee, but with the superior creatures, in proportion as they become
like to Thee.s And I inquired what iniquity was, and ascertained it
not to be a substance, but a perversion of the will, bent aside
from-Thee, O God, the Supreme Substance, towards these lower
things, and casting out its bowels, and swelling outwardly.
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