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But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.
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Verse 6. For she that liveth in pleasure, (that is that seeks to live in ease and plenty) is dead [3] while she is living, by the spiritual death of her soul in sin. See Saint John Chrysostom with no less eloquence than piety, expounding this riddle, as he terms it, to wit, what it is to be at the same time alive and dead. Witham.
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