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But the devils, whom these men repute gods, are content that even iniquities they are guiltless of should be ascribed to them, so long as they may entangle men’s minds in the meshes of these opinions, and draw them on along with themselves to their predestinated punishment: whether such things were actually committed by the men whom these devils, delighting in human infatuation, cause to be worshipped as gods, and in whose stead they, by a thousand malign and deceitful artifices, substitute themselves, and so receive worship.

But not to mention this, where can we readily find a man who holds in fit and just estimation those persons on account of whose revolting pride, luxury, and avarice, and cursed iniquities and impiety, God now smites the earth as His predictions threatened?

And although they do not fear them to such an extent as to be drawn to the commission of like iniquities, nay, not by any threats or violence soever.

And in these entertainments the poetical compositions and actions of the drama ascribed such iniquities to the gods, that every one might safely imitate them, whether he believed the gods had actually done such things, or, not believing this, yet perceived that they most eagerly desired to be represented as having done them.

I will visit their iniquities with the rod, and their faults with stripes: but my mercy I will not make void from him.

For who is there that has not observed with what profound ignorance, manifesting itself even in infancy, and with what superfluity of foolish desires, beginning to appear in boyhood, man comes into this life, so that, were he left to live as he pleased, and to do whatever he pleased, he would plunge into all, or certainly into many of those crimes and iniquities which I mentioned, and could not mention?

Delude not thyself into iniquities from participation or community, which abate the sense but not the obliquity of them.

Sow not thy understanding with Opinions, which make nothing of Iniquities, and fallaciously extenuate Transgressions.

To offer at iniquities, which have so little foundations in thee, were to be vitious up hill, and strain for thy condemnation.

Cease from your sins, and forget your iniquities, never to commit them again.

Upon what unseemly iniquities did I wear myself out, following a sacrilegious curiosity, that, having deserted Thee, it might drag me into the treacherous abyss, and to the beguiling obedience of devils, unto whom I immolated my wicked deeds, and in all which Thou didst scourge me!

These be the chief iniquities which spring forth from the lust of the flesh, of the eye, and of power, whether singly, or t,no together, or all at once.

But amidst these offences of infamy and violence, and so many iniquities, are the sins of men who are, on the whole, making progress.

And she went to a city full of iniquities, where no ghost was holy and no flesh was whole.

Iran’s revolutionary iniquities were partly the result of fast-forward urbanization and modernization.