OLD TESTAMENT

Wisdom 4:12

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12

For the fascination of wickedness obscures the things which are good, and the whirl of desire perverts an innocent mind.

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Verse 12. Bewitching. Thus the pleasures and goods of the world are well described. For as fascination consists in a delusion of the people, who suppose that their senses are deceived by vain appearances; so it is the mistake of worldlings to believe that the objects of their desires are real goods, and contain no danger.

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