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Summa of history.*)

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Summa of history.*)

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This history and gospel contains an example of a gross unbelief that despises everything.

2. Herod knows that he is acting wickedly.

*) This summa is found in Erl. A. 64, 259. ed.

but he continues. There you can see that there is no fear of God in the flesh.

Reason takes an oath before itself and wants to cover and adorn itself with it.

4 So all men are sent who are forsaken of the light of God, as Herod is.