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"Ah, sinful nation; people laden with iniquity, a seed of evil-doers, children that are corrupters! They are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men; and they bend their tongues like their bow for lies.
What made Samuel Brohl think of reading Shakespeare? Poets are corrupters. The way it happened was this. Samuel had picked up, somewhere, a volume which had dropped from a traveller's pocket. It was a German translation of The Merchant of Venice. He read it, and did not understand it; he reread it, and ended by understanding it.
No religion is pure except in its state of poverty and persecution; the good things of earth are our corrupters. All life is from the sun, but fruit too well loved of the sun falls first and rots. The religion that is fostered by the State and upheld by a standing army may be a pretty good religion, but it is not the Christ religion, call you it "Christianity" never so loudly.
This renders it all the more remarkable that these men should so soon and so universally, as was stoutly alleged and weakly believed, have become thieves and vagabonds corrupters of the blacks and oppressors of the whites.
Lastly, In reference to a people not reformed, hear what the Prophet saith: Jer. vi. 28-30, “They are brass and iron; they are all corrupters. The bellows are burnt, the lead is consumed of the fire, the founder melteth in vain; for the wicked are not plucked away.
Wherefore, as you have begun to glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's; so I beseech you do it more and more. Loose professors are defilers and corrupters; a man shall get nothing but a blot by having company with them. Let thy company be the excellent in the earth even those that are excellent for knowledge and conversation.
The doer of iniquity is 'laden with iniquity. Notice, too, how the awful entail of evil from parents to children is adduced shall we say as aggravating, or as lessening, the guilt of each generation? Isaiah's contemporaries are 'a seed of evil-doers, spring from such, and in their turn are 'children that are corrupters. The fatal bias becomes stronger as it passes down.
A method taken by all corrupters, from old Satan, to the lowest of his servants. Yet, to speak in the language of a person I am bound to honour, he is deemed a prudent man; that is to say a good manager. Then I cannot but confess, that now I like not anybody better, whatever I did once. He is no fox-hunter: he keeps a pack indeed; but prefers not his hounds to his fellow-creatures.
While the dregs of the nation elevate the flatterers and corrupters of the people to station while cut-throats swear, drink, and clothe themselves in rags, in order to fraternize with the populace, Buzot possesses the morality of Socrates, and maintains the decorum of Scipio. So they pull down his house, and banish him as they did Aristides.
Might not God truly say of us, "Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger: they are gone away backward." Even the prophets prophesy falsely, and the people love to have it so! Do you say, "No, we are not so bad?"
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