● ● ● Gospel, “Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us?” Increasingly she was to define this kind of hostility as basically impersonal—the resistance of error to truth, or in Pauline terms, the working of the “carnal mind” which is “enmity against God. ” But always she insisted that it might come to its sharpest focus in those persons who consciously lent themselves as tools to the hate that kills, the envy that poisons, the pride and ambition that stab and lie and steal.
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