win, and pressed so zealously by his followers, is in substance the rejection of God, the same as that of which Jeremiah long ago wrote: "Saying to a stock, 'Thou art my father,' and to a stone, 'Thou hast brought me forth.'" And the reason of it is the same as in the lines following: "For they have turned their backs unto Me, and not their faces."
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