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but death entered into the world by the envy of the devil, and those who belong to him experience it.
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Verse 24. Envy. Lucifer thought that the honour of the hypostatic union ( Calmet.) belonged to the angelic, rather than to the human nature; and this he was guilty of envy, ( Bible.) and strove to become like the most High. Isaiah 14:14. Saint Bernard ser. xvii. in Cant. Corn. A. Lap. and so forth
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