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of this are the angels, who renounced the beauty of God for a beauty which fades, and so fell from heaven to earth.[1]
The Shechemites, too, were punished by an overthrow for dishonouring the holy virgin. The grave was their punishment, and the monument of their ignominy leads to salvation.
- ↑ Gen. iv. 1, 2.
