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| (The Tree of Life by Séraphine Louis) |
“He drove him out of Paradise, and removed him far from the
tree of life, not because He envied him the tree of life, as some venture to
assert, but because He pitied him, [and did not desire] that he should continue
a sinner for ever, nor that the sin which surrounded him should be immortal,
and evil interminable and irremediable. But He set a bound to his [state of]
sin, by interposing death, and thus causing sin to cease, putting an end to it
by the dissolution of the flesh, which should take place in the earth, so that
man, ceasing at length to live to sin, and dying to it, might begin to live to
God.”
~St. Irenaeus
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