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I went up to the light of truth as if into a chariot:
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And the Truth took me and led me: and carried me across pits and gulleys; and from the rocks and the waves it preserved me:
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And it became to me a haven of Salvation: and set me on the arms of immortal life:
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And it went with me and made me rest, and suffered me not to wander, because it was the Truth;
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And I ran no risk, because I walked with Him;
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And I did not make an error in anything because I obeyed the Truth.
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For Error flees away from it, and meets it not: but the Truth proceeds in the right path, and
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Whatever I did not know, it made clear to me, all the poisons of error, and the plagues of death which they think to be sweetness:
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And I saw the destroyer of destruction, when the bride who is corrupted is adorned: and the who corrupts and is corrupted;
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And I asked the Truth 'Who are these?'; and He said to me, 'This is the deceiver and the error:
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38.
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And they are alike in the beloved and in his bride: and they lead astray and corrupt the whole world:
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38.
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And they invite many to the banquet,
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38.
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And give them to drink of the wine of their intoxication, and remove their wisdom and knowledge, and so they make them without intelligence;
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And then they leave them; and then these go about like madmen corrupting: seeing that-they are without heart, nor do they seek for it!
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And I was made wise so as not to fall into the hands of the deceiver; and I congratulated myself because the Truth went with me,
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38.
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And I was established and lived and was redeemed,
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And my foundations were laid on the hand of the Lord: because He established me.
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38.
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For He set the root and watered it and fixed it and blessed it; and its fruits are for ever.
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It struck deep and sprung up and spread out, and was full and enlarged;
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And the Lord alone was glorified in His planting and in His husbandry: by His care and by the blessing of His lips,
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By the beautiful planting of His right hand: and by the discovery of His planting, and by the thought of His mind. Hallelujah.
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