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BUT it is certain that for two reasons the teaching of spiritual things
is ineffectual. For either the teacher is commending what he has no
experience of, and is trying with empty-sounding words to instruct his
hearer, or else the hearer is a bad man and full of faults and cannot
receive in his hard heart the holy and saving doctrine of the spiritual
man; and of these it is said by the prophet: "For the cart of this people
is blinded, and their ears are dull of hearing and their eyes have they
closed: lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with
their ears, and understand with their heart and be converted and I should
heal them."
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