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THE NESTORIANS AND THEIR RITUALS.
Adam gave him his body in pledge, which death seized upon, took into sheol, and then made it the food of noisome insects. He was cast into sheol devoid of all help, and there he bewailed his lot; but God heard the voice of his moaning, and visited him through that Just One, the First-fruits of us, Who had created him after His own image, lest that image should continue to be despised. The Word of God descended from on high, came down to us, took our body, and went forth against sin and destroyed it, because it had been the cause of the destruction of the life of Adam."
