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The life of Saint Issa
animal, for I have dedicated to the use of man all animals and all that the world contains."
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"All has been given to man who is thus directly and intimately bound to me his Father; he who has taken away my child will be severely judged and chastised by the divine law."
14
"To the Eternal Judge Man is nil, just as an animal is to a man."
15
"Therefore I say unto you, leave your idols, do not perform ceremonies that separate you from your Father, and link and bind you to priests against whom Heaven is turned."
16
"For it is they who have led you astray from the true God and whose superstitions and cruelty are leading you to the perversion of spirit and to the loss of all moral sense."
VII
1
The words of Issa were spread abroad among the heathen in the countries through which he travelled and the people abandoned their idols.
2
Seeing this priests demanded from him who glorified the name of the true God, proofs of the reproaches that he had heaped upon them and the demonstration of the powerlessness of their idols, in the presence of the people.
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